UCal and Partners Win U.S. Patent Related to CRISPR-Cas9

The Regents of the University of California (UC), the University of Vienna, and Emmanuelle Charpentier, Ph.D., of the Max-Planck Institute in Berlin, have been granted a U.S. patent for intellectual property related to CRISPR-Cas9 genome-editing technology.According to the companies, U.S. Patent No. 10,000,772 covers methods of using optimized guide RNA formats (including single-guide and dual-guide formats) in certain environments, including eukaryotic cells (such as human, animal, and plant ce