US Patent Issued to YEDA RESEARCH AND DEVELOPMENT on Feb. 24 for "Compositions and methods for regulating gene expression for targeted mutagenesis" (Israeli Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Feb. 24 -- United States Patent no. 12,559,765, issued on Feb. 24, was assigned to YEDA RESEARCH AND DEVELOPMENT Co. LTD. (Rehovot, Israel).

"Compositions and methods for regulating gene expression for targeted mutagenesis" was invented by Asaph Aharoni (Tel Aviv, Israel), Samuel Bocobza (Rehovot, Israel), Tal Dahan (Rehovot, Israel) and Avraham A. Levy (Rehovot, Israel).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Disclosed herein are methods for gene targeting in a plant cell, as well as recombinant nucleic acid molecules used in these methods. Further disclosed are recombinant nucleic acid molecules comprising a target gene operably linked to a regulatory region of the UBQ10 gene."

The ...