US Patent Issued to The State of Israel Ministry Of Agriculture & Rural Development Agricultural Research Organization (ARO) (Volcani Center) on March 3 for "Genome-edited birds" (Israeli Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., March 3 -- United States Patent no. 12,565,664, issued on March 3, was assigned to The State of Israel Ministry Of Agriculture & Rural Development Agricultural Research Organization (ARO) (Volcani Center) (Rishon Lezion, Israel).

"Genome-edited birds" was invented by Yuval Cinnamon (Jerusalem) and Enbal Ben-Tal Cohen (Rehovot, Israel).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "The present disclosure provides exogenous polynucleotide cassettes for generating chimeric bird cells and chimeric birds. The polynucleotide cassettes can be used to produce conditionally-lethal phenotype in male bird embryos. In one embodiment, the present disclosure provides methods for destroying male chick embry...