MUMBAI, India, June 13 -- Intellectual Property India has published a patent application (202517048940 A) filed by The Regents Of The University Of California, Oakland, U.S.A., on May 21, for 'methods for sex-sorting insects.'
Inventor(s) include Akbari, Omar; and Weng, Shih-Che.
The application for the patent was published on June 13, under issue no. 24/2025.
According to the abstract released by the Intellectual Property India: "Provided herein are methods of sex-sorting a plurality of insects based on sex-specific gene expression, the method comprising (a) generating an exogenous nucleic acid molecule; (b) delivering the exogenous nucleic acid molecule into an insect from the plurality of insects, wherein the exogenous nucleic acid molecule comprises a promoter region, a sex-specific splicing module, a reporter gene, and a transcription terminator; (c) detecting sex-specific gene expression of the reporter gene; and (d) sorting the insect from the plurality of insects based on the detecting of the sex-specific gene expression in step (c), thereby sex-sorting the insect based on the sex-specific gene expression."
The patent application was internationally filed on Oct. 23, 2023, under International application No.PCT/US2023/077551.
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