Patents Assigned to BROAD INSTITUTE
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Publication number: 20230220374Abstract: The present disclosure provides systems, compositions, and methods for simultaneously editing both strands of a double-stranded DNA sequence at a target site to be edited. In some aspects, the systems comprise a first and second prime editor complex, wherein each of the first and second prime editor complexes comprises (1) a prime editor comprising (i) a nucleic acid programmable DNA binding protein (napDNAbp), and (ii) a polypeptide having an RNA-dependent DNA polymerase activity; and (2) a pegRNA comprising a spacer sequence, gRNA core, a DNA synthesis template, and a primer binding site, wherein the DNA synthesis template encodes a desired DNA sequence or a complement thereof, wherein the desired DNA sequence and the complement thereof form a duplex comprising an edited portion which integrates into the target site to be edited. In some aspects, the systems comprise a first, second, third, and fourth prime editor complex, each comprising a prime editor and a PEgRNA.Type: ApplicationFiled: November 7, 2022Publication date: July 13, 2023Applicants: THE BROAD INSTITUTE, INC., PRESIDENT AND FELLOWS OF HARVARD COLLEGEInventors: David R. Liu, Andrew Vito Anzalone, Jonathan Ma Levy, Xin Gao, Christopher J. Podracky
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Patent number: 11685916Abstract: The disclosure provides for systems, methods, and compositions for targeting and editing nucleic acids. In particular, the invention provides non-naturally occurring or engineered RNA-targeting systems comprising a RNA-targeting Cas13 protein, at least one guide molecule, and at least one adenosine deaminase protein or catalytic domain thereof.Type: GrantFiled: May 13, 2020Date of Patent: June 27, 2023Assignees: THE BROAD INSTITUTE, INC., MASSACHUSETTS INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY, PRESIDENT AND FELLOWS OF HARVARD COLLEGEInventors: Feng Zhang, Jonathan Gootenberg, David Benjamin Turitz Cox, Omar Abudayyeh, Soumya Kannan
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Publication number: 20230193356Abstract: The present disclosure relates to compositions and methods for single-cell nucleic acid sequencing, and specifically provides for pre-amplifying target nucleic acids in a manner that allows for more proportionate detection of all target nucleic acids, including low prevalence/abundance RNAs, from individual cells. The disclosure also provides for application of a series of barcoding steps to associate cell-specific identifiers (IDs) to the targeted nucleotide sequences, and ultimately provides for increased throughput capacity and greater accuracy of single-cell nucleic acid sequencing. Certain aspects of the present disclosure also provide for improved quantitative detection of nucleic acid sequence barcodes, which in embodiments allows for highly sensitive quantitative detection of barcoded antibody levels and/or highly sensitive quantitative detection of barcoded antibody-bound protein levels (e.g.Type: ApplicationFiled: June 7, 2021Publication date: June 22, 2023Applicants: THE BROAD INSTITUTE, INC., MASSACHUSETTS INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY, THE GENERAL HOSPITAL CORPORATIONInventors: Aziz Al'Khafaji, Paul Blainey, Nir Hacohen
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Publication number: 20230193242Abstract: Embodiments herein include engineered CRISPR-Cas effector proteins that comprise at least one modification compared to an unmodified CRISPR-Cas effector protein (e.g., C2c1) that enhances binding of the of the CRISPR complex to the binding site and/ or alters editing preference as compared to wild type. Embodiments disclosed further include viral vectors for delivery of CRISPR-Cas effector proteins. The vectors may be designed to allow packaging of the CRISPR-Cas effector protein within a single vector. Certain embodiments further include delivery vectors, constructs, and methods of delivering larger genes for systemic delivery.Type: ApplicationFiled: December 21, 2018Publication date: June 22, 2023Applicants: THE BROAD INSTITUTE, INC., MASSACHUSETTS INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGYInventors: Feng Zhang, Bernd Zetsche, Jonathan Strecker
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Publication number: 20230151431Abstract: The present disclosure relates to compositions and methods for the diagnosis and treatment or prevention of cancers that exhibit elevated expression of the glutamate/cysteine transporter SLC7A11, reduced expression of the fatty acid transporter SLC25A45 and/or reduced expression of FAM3 metabolism regulating signaling molecule B (FAM3B). In particular, the instant disclosure provides for identification of a cancer as possessing elevated SLC7A11 expression, reduced expression of SLC25A45 and/or reduced expression of FAM3B, and selecting and/or administering a glutaminase inhibitor as a therapeutic agent for such a cancer and/or subject having or at risk of developing such a cancer. Methods and compositions for therapies that combine such selection of cancers/subjects for glutaminase inhibitor therapy with other cancer therapies and/or chemotherapeutic agents are also provided.Type: ApplicationFiled: March 12, 2021Publication date: May 18, 2023Applicants: DANA-FARBER CANCER INSTITUTE, INC., THE BROAD INSTITUTE, INC.Inventors: Steven Corsello, Caitlin Harrington, Todd R. Golub
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Patent number: 11639523Abstract: Engineered or non-naturally occurring systems and compositions comprising a novel Cas12b and a guide molecule. Also provided include methods of use the systems and compositions, including in treating and diagnosing diseases.Type: GrantFiled: June 5, 2020Date of Patent: May 2, 2023Assignees: THE BROAD INSTITUTE, INC., MASSACHUSETTS INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGYInventors: Feng Zhang, Jonathan Gootenberg, Omar Abudayyeh, Julia Joung, Alim Ladha, Han Altae-Tran, Guilhem Faure
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Patent number: 11634755Abstract: The invention provides for systems, methods, and compositions for targeting nucleic acids. In particular, the invention provides non-naturally occurring or engineered DNA-targeting systems comprising a novel DNA-targeting CRISPR effector protein and at least one targeting nucleic acid component like a guide RNA. Methods for making and using and uses of such systems, methods, and compositions and products from such methods and uses are also disclosed and claimed.Type: GrantFiled: December 17, 2021Date of Patent: April 25, 2023Assignees: THE BROAD INSTITUTE, INC., MASSACHUSETTS INSTITUTE OF TEOHNOLOGY, PRESIDENT AND FELLOWS OF HARVARD COLLEGEInventors: Feng Zhang, Bernd Zetsche, Johnathan S. Gootenberg, Omar O. Abudayyeh, Ian Slaymaker
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Patent number: 11633415Abstract: The present invention includes CSNK1A1 inhibitors that are useful in treating or preventing a cancer in a subject. In certain embodiments, the cancer comprises a hematological cancer, such as but not limited to acute myeloid leukemia (AML) and/or MDS (myelodysplastic syndrome, including 5q-MDS). In other embodiments, the cancer comprises colon cancer.Type: GrantFiled: March 30, 2018Date of Patent: April 25, 2023Assignees: THE BROAD INSTITUTE, INC., DANA-FARBER CANCER INSTITUTE, INC.Inventors: Steven M. Corsello, Todd R. Golub, Eric Stefan, Robert Hilgraf
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Patent number: 11629132Abstract: The present invention provides methods of inducing proliferation of and/or differentiating cells comprising contacting cells with compounds within the methods of the invention. The present invention further provides cells obtainable by the methods of the invention.Type: GrantFiled: September 19, 2018Date of Patent: April 18, 2023Assignees: THE BROAD INSTITUTE, INC., MASSACHUSETTS INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGYInventors: Sangeeta Bhatia, Jing Shan, Michelle Palmer, Nathan Ross
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Patent number: 11624078Abstract: The invention provides for systems, methods, and compositions for altering expression of target gene sequences and related gene products. Provided are structural information on the Cas protein of the CRISPR-Cas system, use of this information in generating modified components of the CRISPR complex, vectors and vector systems which encode one or more components or modified components of a CRISPR complex, as well as methods for the design and use of such vectors and components. Also provided are methods of directing CRISPR complex formation in eukaryotic cells and methods for utilizing the CRISPR-Cas system. In particular the present invention comprehends optimized functional CRISPR-Cas enzyme systems, wherein the guide sequence is modified by secondary structure to increase the specificity of the CRISPR-Cas system and whereby the secondary structure can protect against exonuclease activity and allow for 5? additions to the guide sequence.Type: GrantFiled: April 9, 2020Date of Patent: April 11, 2023Assignees: THE BROAD INSTITUTE, INC., MASSACHUSETTS INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY, PRESIDENT AND FELLOWS OF HARVARD COLLEGEInventors: Feng Zhang, Omar O. Abudayyeh, James E. Dahlman, Patrick Hsu, David A. Scott
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Publication number: 20230108784Abstract: Embodiments disclosed herein are directed to engineered CRISPR-Cas effector proteins that comprise at least one modification compared to an unmodified CRISPR-Cas effector protein that enhances binding of the of the CRISPR complex to the binding site and/or alters editing preference as compared to wild type. In certain example embodiments, the CRISPR-Cas effector protein is a Type V effector protein. In certain other example embodiments, the Type V effector protein is Cpf1. Embodiments disclosed herein are directed to viral vectors for delivery of CRISPR-Cas effector proteins, including Cpf1. In certain example embodiments, the vectors are designed so as to allow packaging of the CRISPR-Cas effector protein within a single vector. There is also an increased interest in the design of compact promoters for packing and thus expressing larger transgenes for targeted delivery and tissue-specificity.Type: ApplicationFiled: May 11, 2022Publication date: April 6, 2023Applicants: THE BROAD INSTITUTE, INC., MASSACHUSETTS INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGYInventors: Feng Zhang, David Arthur Scott, Winston Xia Yan, Sourav Choudhury, Matthias Heidenreich
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Patent number: 11618896Abstract: The disclosure provides for systems, methods, and compositions for targeting and editing nucleic acids. In particular, the invention provides non-naturally occurring or engineered RNA-targeting systems comprising a RNA-targeting Cas13 protein, at least one guide molecule, and at least one adenosine deaminase protein or catalytic domain thereof.Type: GrantFiled: September 21, 2018Date of Patent: April 4, 2023Assignees: THE BROAD INSTITUTE, INC., MASSACHUSETTS INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY, PRESIDENTAND FELLOWS OF HARVARD COLLEGEInventors: Feng Zhang, Jonathan Gootenberg, David Benjamin Turitz Cox, Omar Abudayyeh, Soumya Kannan
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Patent number: 11618923Abstract: Disclosed are methods for detecting spatial proximity relationships between nucleic acid sequences in a cell. The methods include: providing a sample of one or more cells comprising nucleic acids; fragmenting the nucleic acids present in the cells, wherein the fragmented nucleic acids have ends capable of joining to other fragmented nucleic acids; joining ends of fragmented nucleic acids to other ends fragmented nucleic acid to create at least one nucleic acid concatemer having at least one junction between the joined fragmented nucleic acids, and wherein the at least one nucleic acid concatemer encodes the information about the proximity of the DNA sequences in the cell; and determining the sequence at least one junction of the at least one nucleic acid concatemer, thereby detecting spatial proximity relationships between nucleic acid sequences in a cell.Type: GrantFiled: March 14, 2014Date of Patent: April 4, 2023Assignees: THE BROAD INSTITUTE, INC., PRESIDENT AND FELLOWS OF HARVARD COLLEGEInventors: Erez Lieberman Aiden, Suhas Rao, Elena Stamenova
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Publication number: 20230091690Abstract: Described herein are guided excision-transposition systems, methods of making, and uses thereof.Type: ApplicationFiled: December 30, 2020Publication date: March 23, 2023Applicants: THE BROAD INSTITUTE, INC., MASSACHUSETTS INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGYInventors: Feng Zhang, Guilhem Faure, Daniel Strebinger, Makoto Saito
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Patent number: 11597949Abstract: 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 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 prokaryotic and eukaryotic cells to ensure enhanced specificity for target recognition and avoidance of toxicity.Type: GrantFiled: April 9, 2020Date of Patent: March 7, 2023Assignees: THE BROAD INSTITUTE, INC., MASSACHUSETTS INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY, PRESIDENT AND FELLOWS OF HARVARD COLLEGEInventors: Feng Zhang, Patrick Hsu, Chie-Yu Lin, Fei Ran
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Patent number: 11597919Abstract: The invention provides for systems, methods, and compositions for altering expression of target gene sequences and related gene products. Provided are structural information on the Cas protein of the CRISPR-Cas system, use of this information in generating modified components of the CRISPR complex, vectors and vector systems which encode one or more components or modified components of a CRISPR complex, as well as methods for the design and use of such vectors and components. Also provided are methods of directing CRISPR complex formation in eukaryotic cells and methods for utilizing the CRISPR-Cas system. In particular the present invention comprehends optimized functional CRISPR-Cas enzyme systems.Type: GrantFiled: October 3, 2019Date of Patent: March 7, 2023Assignees: THE BROAD INSTITUTE INC., MASSACHUSETTS INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY, PRESIDENT AND FELLOWS OF HARVARD COLLEGE, UNIVERSITY OF TOKYOInventors: Silvana Konermann, Alexandro Trevino, Mark Brigham, Fei Ran, Patrick Hsu, Chie-yu Lin, Osamu Nureki, Hiroshi Nishimasu, Ryuichiro Ishitani, Feng Zhang
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Patent number: 11591650Abstract: The disclosed invention is related to a universal strand-specific protocol for the sequencing preparation of all classes of RNA. The protocol allows for sequencing for dozens to more than thousands of samples simultaneously. Specifically, the disclosed invention is a method for parallel sequencing target RNA from samples from multiple sources while maintaining source identification.Type: GrantFiled: March 30, 2020Date of Patent: February 28, 2023Assignees: THE BROAD INSTITUTE, INC., MASSACHUSETTS INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGYInventors: Alexander A. Shishkin, Mitchell Guttman, Christine F. Surka, Eric Lander
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Patent number: 11591581Abstract: 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 SIN CRISPR complex, as well as methods for the design and use of such vectors. Also provided are methods of directing SIN CRISPR complex formation in eukaryotic cells to ensure enhanced specificity for target recognition and avoidance of toxicity and to edit or modify a target site in a genomic locus of interest to alter or improve the status of a disease or a condition.Type: GrantFiled: January 30, 2019Date of Patent: February 28, 2023Assignees: THE BROAD INSTITUTE, INC., MASSACHUSETTS INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY, UNIVERSITY OF IOWA RESEARCH FOUNDATIONInventors: Feng Zhang, Beverly Davidson, Chie-Yu Lin, Edgardo Rodriguez
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Publication number: 20230056577Abstract: The present application provides systems, methods and compositions used for targeted gene modification, targeted insertion, perturbation of gene transcripts, nucleic acid editing. Novel nucleic acid targeting systems comprise components of Clustered Regularly Interspaced Short Palindromic Repeats (CRISPR) systems and transposable elements.Type: ApplicationFiled: May 12, 2022Publication date: February 23, 2023Applicants: THE BROAD INSTITUTE, INC., MASSACHUSETTS INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGYInventors: Feng Zhang, Jonathan Strecker, Alim Ladha
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Publication number: 20230049737Abstract: Systems and methods for targeted gene modification, targeted insertion, perturbation of gene transcripts, and nucleic acid editing. Novel nucleic acid targeting systems comprise components of CRISPR systems, reverse transcriptase, pegRNAs, paired pegRNAs or modified pegRNAs, DNA processing proteins, recombinases, proteins for inhibiting nucleases, and proteins for promoting ssDNA annealing.Type: ApplicationFiled: December 30, 2020Publication date: February 16, 2023Applicants: THE BROAD INSTITUTE, INC., MASSACHUSETTS INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGYInventors: Feng Zhang, Jonathan Strecker, David Li