US Patent Issued to The University of British Columbia on Sept. 1 for "Compositions and systems comprising transfection-competent vesicles free of organic-solvents and detergents and methods related thereto" (Canadian Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Sept. 1 -- United States Patent no. 12,721,909, issued on Sept. 1, was assigned to The University of British Columbia (Vancouver, Canada).

"Compositions and systems comprising transfection-competent vesicles free of organic-solvents and detergents and methods related thereto" was invented by Blair Leavitt (Vancouver, Canada), Pieter Cullis (Vancouver, Canada), Terri Petkau (Vancouver, Canada), Austin Hill (Vancouver, Canada), Pamela Wagner (Vancouver, Canada) and Jayesh Kulkarni (Vancouver, Canada).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Lipid-based vesicles, typically herein called transfection competent vesicles (TCVs), configured to safely and efficiently deliver DNA, RNA, other nuc...