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The patent badge is an abbreviated version of the USPTO patent document. The patent badge covers the following: Patent number, Date patent was issued, Date patent was filed, Title of the patent, Applicant, Inventor, Assignee, Attorney firm, Primary examiner, Assistant examiner, CPCs, and Abstract. The patent badge does contain a link to the full patent document (in Adobe Acrobat format, aka pdf). To download or print any patent click here.
Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Dec. 10, 2002
Filed:
Jan. 19, 2001
Applicant:
Inventors:
Andrea L. Ferris, Frederick, MD (US);
Stephen H. Hughes, Smithsburg, MD (US);
Assignee:
Attorney:
Primary Examiner:
Assistant Examiner:
Int. Cl.
CPC ...
C12N 1/574 ; C12N 1/563 ; C12N 1/585 ; C12N 1/587 ; C12N 1/586 ;
U.S. Cl.
CPC ...
C12N 1/574 ; C12N 1/563 ; C12N 1/585 ; C12N 1/587 ; C12N 1/586 ;
Abstract
An Avian-derived retroviral vector from which the Constitutive Transport Element (CTE) has been removed and replaced with a genetic fragment from a mammalian virus in order to produce a vector that is replication competent in at least one non-native cell type without the need for a “helper” virus, and that is unlikely to recombine with endogenous mammalian viruses, making it both safe and simple to use in research and gene-therapy applications.