Patents by Inventor George M. Church

George M. Church has filed for patents to protect the following inventions. This listing includes patent applications that are pending as well as patents that have already been granted by the United States Patent and Trademark Office (USPTO).

  • Patent number: 11512325
    Abstract: A method of altering a eukaryotic cell is provided including transfecting the eukaryotic cell with a nucleic acid encoding RNA complementary to genomic DNA of the eukaryotic cell, transfecting the eukaryotic cell with a nucleic acid encoding an enzyme that interacts with the RNA and cleaves the genomic DNA in a site specific manner, wherein the cell expresses the RNA and the enzyme, the RNA binds to complementary genomic DNA and the enzyme cleaves the genomic DNA in a site specific manner.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 16, 2022
    Date of Patent: November 29, 2022
    Assignee: President and Fellows of Harvard College
    Inventors: George M. Church, Prashant G. Mali, Luhan Yang
  • Patent number: 11473139
    Abstract: A method of sequencing nucleic acids is provided using DNA origami as a barcode for a nucleic acid probe.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 26, 2020
    Date of Patent: October 18, 2022
    Assignee: President and Fellows of Harvard College
    Inventors: George M. Church, Richard C. Terry, Frederic Vigneault
  • Patent number: 11459586
    Abstract: Inhibiting p53 or Bax can be used to improve nuclease-mediated gene targeting frequencies in stem cells. This inhibition can be achieved, e.g., by overexpression of anti-apoptosis proteins or by silencing or reducing p53 or Bax expression. This technique can be used in conjunction with other rapidly developing CRISPR technologies, including improvements in specificity, other types of nucleases, and further enrichment, screening, and selection schemes, to expand the use of stem cells in experimental studies and tissue engineering for therapeutic purposes.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 19, 2017
    Date of Patent: October 4, 2022
    Assignee: President and Fellows of Harvard College
    Inventors: George M. Church, Susan M. Byrne
  • Patent number: 11459585
    Abstract: Methods of multiplex genome engineering in cells using Cas9 is provided which includes a cycle of steps of introducing into the cell a first foreign nucleic acid encoding one or more RNAs complementary to the target DNA and which guide the enzyme to the target DNA, wherein the one or more RNAs and the enzyme are members of a co-localization complex for the target DNA, and introducing into the cell a second foreign nucleic acid encoding one or more donor nucleic acid sequences, and wherein the cycle is repeated a desired number of times to multiplex DNA engineering in cells.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 8, 2014
    Date of Patent: October 4, 2022
    Assignee: President and Fellows of Harvard College
    Inventors: George M. Church, James Dicarlo
  • Publication number: 20220309092
    Abstract: Methods, systems, and computer-readable media for processing spatially related sequence data received from a sequencing device are presented. In one or more embodiments, a computing platform may receive, from a sequencing device, image data associated with a sample. The computing platform may identify, based on the image data received from the sequencing device, a first sequence located at first spatial coordinates. Subsequently, the computing platform may store, in a spatially searchable database, a first data element comprising the first spatial coordinates and a first identifier corresponding to the first sequence to spatially relate the first sequence to other sequences present in the sample.
    Type: Application
    Filed: May 27, 2022
    Publication date: September 29, 2022
    Inventors: Evan R. Daugharthy, Vivek Dasari, George M. Church
  • Patent number: 11447807
    Abstract: The present disclosure provides methods that combine RNA fluorescent in situ sequencing (FISSEQ) with other molecular detection modalities, forming an integrated panomic detection platform. In various embodiments, the present disclosure provides systems and methods to prepare a biological sample to preserve the spatial relationships of biomolecules of interest within the biological sample for FISSEQ detection.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 28, 2019
    Date of Patent: September 20, 2022
    Assignee: President and Fellows of Harvard College
    Inventors: George M. Church, Evan R. Daugharthy, Richard C. Terry
  • Publication number: 20220282301
    Abstract: The inventions provided herein relate to detection reagents, compositions, methods, and kits comprising the detection reagents for use in detection, identification, and/or quantification of analytes in a sample. Such detection reagents and methods described herein allow multiplexing of many more labeled species in the same procedure than conventional methods, in which multiplexing is limited by the number of available and practically usable colors.
    Type: Application
    Filed: May 19, 2022
    Publication date: September 8, 2022
    Inventors: Daniel Levner, Je-hyuk Lee, George M. Church, Michael Super
  • Patent number: 11434262
    Abstract: Provided herein are compositions, kits and methods useful in the construction of designer transcription activator-like effector (dTALE) polypeptides.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 26, 2016
    Date of Patent: September 6, 2022
    Assignee: President and Fellows of Harvard College
    Inventors: Feng Zhang, Le Cong, Sriram Kosuri, George M. Church
  • Publication number: 20220267802
    Abstract: Provided herein, in some embodiments, are methods and compositions for gene delivery. Provided herein is a technology for co-delivering to a cell (e.g., in vivo or ex vivo) enzymes capable of rearranging nucleic acid, such as site-specific recombinases, to directly assemble (e.g., covalently join) nucleic acid segments of, for example, a gene of interest.
    Type: Application
    Filed: July 14, 2020
    Publication date: August 25, 2022
    Applicant: President And Fellows Of Harvard College
    Inventors: Benjamin Weinberg, Denitsa M. Milanova, Issac Han, George M. Church
  • Publication number: 20220259599
    Abstract: Provided herein, in some embodiments, are nucleic acid vectors, such as recombinant viral genomes, comprising an inhibitory oligonucleotide that reduces inflammation for use, for example, in gene therapy.
    Type: Application
    Filed: May 14, 2020
    Publication date: August 18, 2022
    Applicant: President and Fellows of Harvard College
    Inventors: Ying Kai Chan, Jessica Chiang, George M. Church
  • Publication number: 20220251642
    Abstract: A method of sequencing nucleic acids is provided using sequencing by ligation and/or sequencing by hybridization.
    Type: Application
    Filed: April 8, 2022
    Publication date: August 11, 2022
    Inventors: George M. Church, Richard C. Terry, Frederic Vigneault, Francois Vigneault
  • Publication number: 20220241351
    Abstract: A probiotic formulation is provided including one or more bacteria, bacterial strains or bacterial species of the genus Veillonella, genus Faecalibacterium, genus Phascolarctobacteria, genus Oscillospira, genus Ruminococcus, genus Bacteroides, genus Blautia, family Christensenellaceae, genus Dialister, or phylum cyanobacteria.
    Type: Application
    Filed: April 18, 2022
    Publication date: August 4, 2022
    Inventors: Jonathan Scheiman, George M. Church
  • Publication number: 20220246240
    Abstract: Methods and systems for designing, testing, and validating genome designs based on rules or constraints or conditions or parameters or features and scoring are described herein.
    Type: Application
    Filed: April 13, 2022
    Publication date: August 4, 2022
    Inventors: Gleb Kuznetsov, Marc J. Lajoie, Matthieu M. Landon, Michael G. Napolitano, Daniel Bryan Goodman, Christopher J. Gregg, George M. Church, Nili Ostrov
  • Publication number: 20220235382
    Abstract: Methods are provided for altering target DNA in a cell genetically modified to express a Cas 9 enzyme that forms a co-localization complex with a guide RNA complementary to the target DNA and that cleaves the target DNA in a site specific manner Methods include introducing into the cell a first foreign nucleic acid encoding a donor nucleic acid sequence, introducing into the cell from media surrounding the cell the guide RNA complementary to the target DNA and which guides the Cas 9 enzyme to the target DNA, wherein the RNA and the enzyme are members of a co-localization complex for the target DNA, wherein the donor nucleic acid sequence is expressed, wherein the guide RNA and the Cas 9 enzyme co-localize to the target DNA, the Cas 9 enzyme cleaves the target DNA and the donor nucleic acid is inserted into the target DNA to produce altered DNA in the cell.
    Type: Application
    Filed: April 7, 2022
    Publication date: July 28, 2022
    Inventors: George M. Church, Luhan Yang, Marc Guell, Joyce Lichi Yang
  • Patent number: 11396651
    Abstract: Methods and compositions for high-throughput, single cell analyses are provided. The methods and compositions can be used for analysis of genomes and transcriptomes, as well as antibody discovery, HLA typing, haplotyping and drug discovery.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 21, 2020
    Date of Patent: July 26, 2022
    Assignee: President and Fellows of Harvard College
    Inventors: George M. Church, Francois Vigneault
  • Publication number: 20220228196
    Abstract: Methods of making a three-dimensional matrix of nucleic acids within a cell is provided.
    Type: Application
    Filed: March 30, 2022
    Publication date: July 21, 2022
    Inventors: George M. Church, Je-Hyuk Lee, Richard C. Terry, Evan R. Daugharthy
  • Publication number: 20220228157
    Abstract: Provided herein, in some aspects are high efficiency gene editing methods in bacterial cells using single-stranded annealing proteins and/or single-stranded binding proteins.
    Type: Application
    Filed: May 21, 2020
    Publication date: July 21, 2022
    Applicant: President and Fellows of Harvard College
    Inventors: George M. Church, Timothy M. Wannier, Gabriel T. Filsinger
  • Patent number: 11384358
    Abstract: The disclosure provides methods of making a tetracycline inducible expression system in a cell. The methods include providing the cell with a first nucleic acid sequence comprising a first promoter operably linked to a tetracycline repressor gene coding sequence, providing the cell with a second nucleic acid sequence comprising a second promoter operably linked to a coding sequence of a gene of interest wherein the second promoter is modified to include one or more tetracycline repressor protein binding sites, and determining the expression of the gene of interest in the presence or absence of tetracycline. The disclosure further provides nucleic acid sequences, vectors and cells including the tetracycline inducible modified promoter.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 29, 2018
    Date of Patent: July 12, 2022
    Assignee: President and Fellows of Harvard College
    Inventors: Anik Debnath, Javier Fernandez Juarez, Henry Hung-yi Lee, George M. Church
  • Publication number: 20220204926
    Abstract: Provided herein is a differentiation agent that consist essentially of SOX9 for the production of oligodendrocyte progenitor cells (OPCs) from pluripotent stem cells (PSCs). Also provided herein are methods of producing the PSCs and methods of using the PSCs to produce OPCs and oligodendrocytes.
    Type: Application
    Filed: November 29, 2021
    Publication date: June 30, 2022
    Applicant: President and Fellows of Harvard College
    Inventors: Hon Man Alex Ng, Parastoo Khoshakhlagh, George M. Church
  • Patent number: 11365410
    Abstract: Methods of making and monitoring metabolites in cells are provided.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 12, 2016
    Date of Patent: June 21, 2022
    Assignee: President and Fellows of Harvard College
    Inventors: Jameson K. Rogers, George M. Church