MUMBAI, India, April 12 -- Intellectual Property India has published a patent application (202327074515 A) filed by B. G. Negev Technologies And Applications Ltd. At Ben-Gurion University, Beer Sheva, Israel, on Nov. 1, 2023, for 'birds for producing female hatchling and methods of producing same.'
Inventor(s) include Abdu, Uri; and Ozer, Eden.
The application for the patent was published on April 12, under issue no. 15/2024.
According to the abstract released by the Intellectual Property India: "The present invention provides compositions and methods for generating a genetically modified female bird such that, when crossed with a native male bird, produces selectively only female viable hatched offspring."
The patent application was in...