ALEXANDRIA, Va., April 21 -- United States Patent no. 12,606,808, issued on April 21, was assigned to Tsinghua University (Beijing).
"Mirror nucleic acid replication system" was invented by Ting Zhu (Beijing), Lei Liu (Beijing), Weiliang Xu (Beijing), Zimou Wang (Beijing), Wenjun Jiang (Beijing), Jiaxing Wang (Beijing) and Linping Yu (Beijing).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Provided is a method for replicating a mirror nucleic acid, comprising: reacting a mirror nucleic acid template, a mirror nucleic acid primer and mirror dNTPs/rNTPs in the presence of a mirror nucleic acid polymerase, so as to obtain the mirror nucleic acid."
The patent was filed on May 31, 2022, under Application No. 17/8...