Patents Assigned to BROAD INSTITUTE
  • Publication number: 20190367964
    Abstract: Described herein are compositions and methods of disaggregating a tissue sample into single cells.
    Type: Application
    Filed: February 2, 2017
    Publication date: December 5, 2019
    Applicants: DANA-FARBER CANCER INSTITUTE, INC., THE BROAD INSTITUTE, INC., MASSACHUSETTS INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY, PRESIDENT AND FELLOWS OF HARVARD COLLEGE
    Inventors: Benjamin Izar, Levi Garraway, Asaf Rotem, Aviv Regev, Alexander Shalek, Marc Wadsworth, Sanjay Prakadan, Orit Rozenblatt-Rosen, Itay Tirosh
  • Patent number: 10494621
    Abstract: Disclosed and claimed are mutation(s) or modification(s) of the CRISPR enzyme, for example a Cas enzyme such as a Cas9, which obtain an improvement, for instance a reduction, as to off-target effects of a CRISPR-Cas or CRISPR-enzyme or CRISPR-Cas9 system or complex containing or including such a mutated or modified Cas or CRISPR enzyme or Cas9. Methods for making and using and uses of such mutated or modified Cas or CRISPR enzyme or Cas9 and systems or complexes containing the same and products from such methods and uses are also disclosed and claimed.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 11, 2018
    Date of Patent: December 3, 2019
    Assignees: THE BROAD INSTITUTE, INC., MASSACHUSETTS INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY
    Inventors: Feng Zhang, Linyi Gao, Bernd Zetsche, Ian Slaymaker
  • Patent number: 10487354
    Abstract: The present invention relates to methods of quantifying nucleic acids involving (a) contacting a sample to be tested with whole-genome amplification (WGA) reaction components and a dye molecule to form a reaction sample, wherein the dye molecule detects the nucleic acid; (b) partitioning the reaction sample wherein each partitioned reaction sample corresponds to a single reaction; (c) allowing the reaction to occur in the partitioned reaction sample and (d) determining the number of partitioned reaction samples having the dye molecule, wherein the dye molecule indicates the presence of the nucleic acid; thereby quantifying the nucleic acid in the sample to be tested.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 11, 2015
    Date of Patent: November 26, 2019
    Assignees: THE BROAD INSTITUTE, INC., MASSACHUSETTS INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY
    Inventors: Paul Blainey, Liyi Xu
  • Publication number: 20190352652
    Abstract: The present invention generally relates to plants comprising a CRISPR system or parts of a CRISPR system, compositions, containers, polynucleotide, vectors, delivery systems, parts of plants, methods for production, CRISPR systems, and components thereof. Further aspects of the invention include a method for identifying a CRISPR system which is functional in a plant cell and a method for improving a CRISPR system in a plant.
    Type: Application
    Filed: December 8, 2017
    Publication date: November 21, 2019
    Applicants: THE BROAD INSTITUTE, INC., MASSACHUSETTS INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY, REGENTS OF THE UNIVERSITY OF MINNESOTA, PRESIDENT AND FELLOWS OF HARVARD COLLEGE
    Inventors: Omar ABUDAYYEH, Joseph John BELANTO, Jonathan GOOTENBERG, Colby Garret STARKER, Daniel Francis VOYTAS, Feng ZHANG
  • Publication number: 20190350938
    Abstract: The invention features compositions and methods that are useful for increasing the level or activity of SLC16A11 in a subject, there by treating or preventing type 2 diabetes in the subject.
    Type: Application
    Filed: June 27, 2017
    Publication date: November 21, 2019
    Applicants: THE BROAD INSTITUTE, INC., PRESIDENT AND FELLOWS OF HARVARD COLLEGE, INSTITUTO CARLOS SLIM DE LA SALUD, A.C.
    Inventors: EITAN HOCH, SUZANNE BETH ROSENBERG JACOBS, VICTOR RUSU, LIPING ZHAO, JOSE M. MERCADER BIGAS
  • Patent number: 10449199
    Abstract: The invention provides for the use of radiation sensitizing agents in combination with radiation for the treatment of neoplasia, methods for the identification of genotype-specific radiation sensitizing agents, and methods of identifying patients who could benefit from therapy with a genotype-specific radiation sensitizing agent.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 29, 2016
    Date of Patent: October 22, 2019
    Assignees: THE BROAD INSTITUTE, INC., THE BRIGHAM AND WOMEN'S HOSPITAL, INC., DANA-FARBER CANCER INSTITUTE, INC.
    Inventors: Mohamed Abazeed, Matthew Meyerson, Drew Adams
  • Publication number: 20190309357
    Abstract: The embodiments disclosed herein utilized RNA targeting effectors to provide a robust CRISPR-based diagnostic with attomolar sensitivity. Embodiments disclosed herein can detect broth DNA and RNA with comparable levels of sensitivity and can differentiate targets from non-targets based on single base pair differences. Moreover, the embodiments disclosed herein can be prepared in freeze-dried format for convenient distribution and point-of-care (POC) applications. Such embodiments are useful in multiple scenarios in human health including, for example, viral detection, bacterial strain typing, sensitive genotyping, and detection of disease-associated cell free DNA.
    Type: Application
    Filed: February 25, 2019
    Publication date: October 10, 2019
    Applicants: THE BROAD INSTITUTE, INC., MASSACHUSETTS INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY, PRESIDENT AND FELLOWS OF HARVARD COLLEGE
    Inventors: Omar ABUDAYYEH, James Joseph COLLINS, Jonathan GOOTENBERG, Feng ZHANG, Eric S. LANDER
  • Publication number: 20190292602
    Abstract: The present disclosure relates to compositions and methods for the diagnosis and treatment or prevention of DLBCL. In particular, the instant disclosure provides a DLBCL classifier that has identified at least five distinct classes of DLBCL cancer, each of which possesses distinct pathogenic mechanisms and outcomes. The instant classifier identifies preferred therapeutic options (including combination therapies) for each such class of DLBCL cancer.
    Type: Application
    Filed: March 20, 2019
    Publication date: September 26, 2019
    Applicants: DANA-FARBER CANCER INSTITUTE, INC., THE BROAD INSTITUTE, INC., THE GENERAL HOSPITAL CORPORATION
    Inventors: Bjoern Chapuy, Margaret Shipp, Chip Stewart, Andrew Dunford, Gad Getz
  • Publication number: 20190274292
    Abstract: The present invention features a knock-in mouse comprising a mutation in an endogenous CRBN locus and methods of use thereof.
    Type: Application
    Filed: May 10, 2019
    Publication date: September 12, 2019
    Applicants: THE BROAD INSTITUTE, INC., THE BRIGHAM AND WOMEN'S HOSPITAL, INC.
    Inventors: BENJAMIN LEVINE EBERT, JAN KRÖNKE, STEVEN A. CARR, NAMRATA D. UDESHI, EMMA FINK
  • Publication number: 20190240203
    Abstract: The present invention includes novel 3,6-diazabicyclo[3.1.1]heptane antibiotic compounds and any salts or solvates thereof. The present invention further includes methods of preparing such compounds, and methods of treating bacterial infection in a subject using such compounds.
    Type: Application
    Filed: October 20, 2017
    Publication date: August 8, 2019
    Applicant: THE BROAD INSTITUTE, INC.
    Inventor: JOSEPH P. VACCA
  • Patent number: 10370716
    Abstract: The present invention features a highly sensitive assay for detecting frameshift mutations for high throughput use. Also provided herein are methods for diagnosing or determining a predisposition for developing medullary cystic kidney disease type 1 (MCKD1) in a subject by detecting a frameshift mutation in the GC-rich variable number of tandem repeats (VNTR) sequence of the mucin 1 gene (MUC-1).
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 10, 2015
    Date of Patent: August 6, 2019
    Assignees: THE BROAD INSTITUTE, INC., THE GENERAL HOSPITAL CORPORATION, INSTITUTO CARLOS SLIM DE LA SALUD, A.C.
    Inventors: Andrew Kirby, Andreas Gnirke, Brendan Blumenstiel, Matthew Defelice, Mark Daly
  • Publication number: 20190218276
    Abstract: Transcriptomes of individual neurons provide rich information about cell types and dynamic states. However, it is difficult to capture rare dynamic processes, such as adult neurogenesis, because isolation from dense adult tissue is challenging, and markers for each phase are limited. Here, Applicants developed Nuc-seq, Div-Seq, and Dronc-Seq. Div-seq combines Nuc-Seq, a scalable single nucleus RNA-Seq method, with EdU-mediated labeling of proliferating cells. Nuc-Seq can sensitively identify closely related cell types within the adult hippocampus. Div-Seq can track transcriptional dynamics of newborn neurons in an adult neurogenic region in the hippocampus. Dronc-Seq uses a microfluidic device to co-encapsulate individual nuclei in reverse emulsion aqueous droplets in an oil medium together with one uniquely barcoded mRNA-capture bead. Finally, Applicants found rare adult newborn GABAergic neurons in the spinal cord, a non-canonical neurogenic region.
    Type: Application
    Filed: October 27, 2016
    Publication date: July 18, 2019
    Applicants: THE BROAD INSTITUTE, INC., MASSACHUSETTS INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY, PRESIDENT AND FELLOWS OF HARVARD COLLEGE
    Inventors: Aviv Regev, Feng Zhang, Naomi Habib, Yinqing Li, Matthias Heidenreich, Lukasz Swiech, Anindita Basu, David Weitz, Inbal Avraham Davidi
  • Publication number: 20190195862
    Abstract: The invention provides markers indicative of pre-cachexia, compositions and methods for identifying patients with a molecular signature indicative of pre-cachexia; a culture system that reproduces the cachetic process in cells in vitro, which facilitates the screening and identification of therapeutic agents useful for disrupting (slowing, reducing, reversing, or preventing) the progression of pre-cachexia to refractory cachexia; as well as therapeutic agents identified using the culture system of the invention.
    Type: Application
    Filed: December 21, 2018
    Publication date: June 27, 2019
    Applicant: THE BROAD INSTITUTE, INC.
    Inventors: DAVID K. THOMAS, TODD R. GOLUB
  • Publication number: 20190177792
    Abstract: As described below, disclosed herein are methods of analyzing DNA methylation in cell-free DNA (cfDNA) and genomic DNA (gDNA) from sequencing data.
    Type: Application
    Filed: August 4, 2017
    Publication date: June 13, 2019
    Applicants: THE BROAD INSTITUTE, INC., MASSACHUSETTS INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY
    Inventors: YAPING LIU, MANOLIS KELLIS, VIKTOR ADALSTEINSSON, ZHIZHUO ZHANG
  • Publication number: 20190169639
    Abstract: Disclosed herein are methods and compositions useful in targeting a payload to, or editing a target nucleic acid, where a governing gRNA molecule is used to target, optionally inactivate, a Cas9 molecule or a Cas9 molecule/gRNA complex.
    Type: Application
    Filed: January 24, 2019
    Publication date: June 6, 2019
    Applicants: EDITAS MEDICINE, INC., THE BROAD INSTITUTE INC., THE UNIVERSITY OF IOWA RESEARCH FOUNDATION, MASSACHUSETTS INSTITUITE OF TECHNOLOGY
    Inventors: Feng Zhang, Deborah Palestrant, Beverly Davidson, Jordi Mata-Fink, Edgardo Rodriguez, Alexis Borisy
  • Patent number: 10301294
    Abstract: Disclosed are compounds that can be used for treating tuberculosis.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 12, 2014
    Date of Patent: May 28, 2019
    Assignees: THE BROAD INSTITUTE INC., MASSACHUSETTS GENERAL HOSPITAL, BRIGHAM AND WOMEN'S HOSPITAL
    Inventors: Timothy A. Lewis, Sivaraman Dandapani, Deborah Hung, Benito Munoz, Partha Nag, Sarah Grant, Tomohiko Kawate
  • Patent number: 10266887
    Abstract: The embodiments disclosed herein utilized RNA targeting effectors to provide a robust CRISPR-based diagnostic with attomolar sensitivity. Embodiments disclosed herein can detect broth DNA and RNA with comparable levels of sensitivity and can differentiate targets from non-targets based on single base pair differences. Moreover, the embodiments disclosed herein can be prepared in freeze-dried format for convenient distribution and point-of-care (POC) applications. Such embodiments are useful in multiple scenarios in human health including, for example, viral detection, bacterial strain typing, sensitive genotyping, and detection of disease-associated cell free DNA.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 9, 2018
    Date of Patent: April 23, 2019
    Assignees: THE BROAD INSTITUTE, INC., MASSACHUSETTS INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY, PRESIDENT AND FELLOWS OF HARVARD COLLEGE
    Inventors: Omar Abudayyeh, James Joseph Collins, Jonathan Gootenberg, Feng Zhang, Eric S. Lander
  • Patent number: 10266886
    Abstract: The embodiments disclosed herein utilized RNA targeting effectors to provide a robust CRISPR-based diagnostic with attomolar sensitivity. Embodiments disclosed herein can detect broth DNA and RNA with comparable levels of sensitivity and can differentiate targets from non-targets based on single base pair differences. Moreover, the embodiments disclosed herein can be prepared in freeze-dried format for convenient distribution and point-of-care (POC) applications. Such embodiments are useful in multiple scenarios in human health including, for example, viral detection, bacterial strain typing, sensitive genotyping, and detection of disease-associated cell free DNA.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 9, 2018
    Date of Patent: April 23, 2019
    Assignees: THE BROAD INSTITUTE, INC., PRESIDENT AND FELLOWS OF HARVARD COLLEGE, MASSACHUSETTS INSTITUTED OF TECHNOLOGY
    Inventors: Omar Abudayyeh, James Joseph Collins, Jonathan Gootenberg, Feng Zhang, Eric S. Lander
  • Publication number: 20190106710
    Abstract: The invention provides for delivery, engineering and optimization of systems, methods, and compositions for manipulation of sequences and/or activities of target sequences. Provided are delivery systems and tissues or organ which are targeted as sites for delivery. Also provided are vectors and vector systems some of which encode one or more components of a CRISPR complex, as well as methods for the design and use of such vectors. Also provided are methods of directing CRISPR complex formation in eukaryotic cells to enable genome engineering in an organism to recapitulate the genetic complexity of disease or a condition and further interrogate gene function.
    Type: Application
    Filed: June 7, 2018
    Publication date: April 11, 2019
    Applicants: THE BROAD INSTITUTE, INC., MASSACHUSETTS INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY, THE BRIGHAM AND WOMEN'S HOSPITAL, INC.
    Inventors: Feng Zhang, Benjamin Levine Ebert, Dirk Heckl
  • Publication number: 20190084944
    Abstract: The present invention provides methods of inducing proliferation of and/or differentiating cells comprising contacting cells with compounds witin the methods of the invention. The present invention further provides cells obtainable by the methods of the invention.
    Type: Application
    Filed: September 19, 2018
    Publication date: March 21, 2019
    Applicants: THE BROAD INSTITUTE, INC., MASSACHUSETTS INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY
    Inventors: SANGEETA BHATIA, JING SHAN, MICHELLE PALMER, NATHAN ROSS