US Patent Issued to University of Massachusetts on Jan. 20 for "Methods of treating amyotrophic lateral sclerosis (ALS)" (Massachusetts Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Jan. 20 -- United States Patent no. 12,529,051, issued on Jan. 20, was assigned to University of Massachusetts (Westborough, Mass.).

"Methods of treating amyotrophic lateral sclerosis (ALS)" was invented by Christian Mueller (Worcester, Mass.) and Abbas Abdallah (Worcester, Mass.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Aspects of the disclosure relate to recombinant gene editing complexes comprising a recombinant gene editing protein and guide RNA (gRNA) that specifically hybridizes to a region of a C90RF72 gene (e.g., a region flanking a G4C2 repeat or within a exonic region of the gene)."

The patent was filed on Nov. 9, 2023, under Application No. 18/505,163.

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