US Patent Issued to The University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, Texas Tech University System on May 26 for "Methods and compositions for increasing transduction efficiency with cell membrane fusion proteins" (North Carolina, Texas Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., May 26 -- United States Patent no. 12,636,380, issued on May 26, was assigned to The University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill (Chapel Hill, N.C.) and Texas Tech University System (Lubbock, Texas).

"Methods and compositions for increasing transduction efficiency with cell membrane fusion proteins" was invented by Chengwen Li (Chapel Hill, N.C.) and R. Bryan Sutton (Lubbock, Texas).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "The invention relates to methods and compositions for increasing introduction (e.g., transduction) efficiency. In particular, the invention relates to methods of increasing introduction (e.g., transduction) efficiency by contacting a host cell with a heterologous agen...