US Patent Issued to The Regents of the University of California on April 7 for "Compositions and methods of using inducible signaling for tunable dynamics in microbial communities" (California Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., April 7 -- United States Patent no. 12,594,307, issued on April 7, was assigned to The Regents of the University of California (Oakland, Calif.).

"Compositions and methods of using inducible signaling for tunable dynamics in microbial communities" was invented by Jeff Hasty (San Diego), Arianna Miano (La Jolla, Calif.) and Michael Julius Liao (San Diego).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Provided herein are compositions and methods for modulating induction of quorum sensing in bacterial cells. For example, provided herein is a method of inducing method of inducing quorum sensing, where the method includes: culturing a bacterial strain, wherein the bacterial strain comprises a fir...