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Patent Profile: Kylin Therapeutics Receives Patent Covering pRNA Technology

By Donald Zuhn, Kevin Noonan, Chris Singer, Sherri Oslick, and Jason Derry

By James DeGiulio -- On Apr. 6, 2010, Kylin Therapeutics of West Lafayette, IN announced the issuance of U.S. Patent No. 7,655,787, which broadly covers a number of functionalities for Kylin's lead technology platform, "pRNA," or "packaging RNA." These functionalities include receptor binding, ribozyme activity, and RNA-interference. The main feature of pRNA is its ability to enhance RNA stability in cells by altering RNA folding and protecting it from exonuclease degradation. The '787 patent, which issued on February 2, 2010, is based on principal inventor Peixuan Guo's (below) original discovery of a virally-encoded 120-base RNA involved in bacteriophage DNA packaging....

Full post as published by Patent Docs on April 08, 2010 (boomark / email).