Patents by Inventor Guy Reeves

Guy Reeves 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).

  • STABLE TRANSFORMATION OF A POPULATION AND A METHOD OF BIOCONTAINMENT USING HAPLOINSUFFICIENCY AND UNDERDOMINANCE PRINCIPLES
    Publication number: 20200093084
    Abstract: The present invention relates to a method for reducing the competitive fitness of an organism hemizygous for a transgenic locus compared to the organism homozygous for the transgenic locus comprising the steps of: (a) reducing the expression of a haploinsufficient gene in the organism, wherein said reduction is conveyed by a transgenic locus in the organism; and (b) rescuing the reduced expression in the organism, wherein said rescue is conveyed by the same transgenic locus in the organism, yielding an organism which is less competitively fit if hemizygous for the transgenic locus than if homozygous for the transgenic locus.
    Type: Application
    Filed: August 12, 2019
    Publication date: March 26, 2020
    Applicant: MAX-PLANCK-GESELLSCHAFT ZUR FÖRDERUNG DER WISSENSCHAFTEN E.V.
    Inventors: Guy Reeves, Floyd Reed
  • STABLE TRANSFORMATION OF A POPULATION AND A METHOD OF BIOCONTAINMENT USING HAPLOINSUFFICIENCY AND UNDERDOMINANCE PRINCIPLES
    Publication number: 20150373937
    Abstract: The present invention relates to a method for reducing the competitive fitness of an organism hemizygous for a transgenic locus compared to the organism homozygous for the transgenic locus comprising the steps of: (a) reducing the expression of a haploinsufficient gene in the organism, wherein said reduction is conveyed by a transgenic locus in the organism; and (b) rescuing the reduced expression in the organism, wherein said rescue is conveyed by the same transgenic locus in the organism, yielding an organism which is less competitively fit if hemizygous for the transgenic locus than if homozygous for the transgenic locus.
    Type: Application
    Filed: December 20, 2013
    Publication date: December 31, 2015
    Inventors: Guy Reeves, Floyd Reed