IP Library Granted Patent US 10,548,761
Granted Patent B2
US 10,548,761 · App. 16/142,171 · Granted Feb 4, 2020

Method and system for reducing the likelihood of colorectal cancer in a human being

Inventor: Joseph E. Kovarik (Englewood, CO)
A61F5/566
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Patent No.
US 10,548,761
App. No.
16/142,171
Granted
Feb 4, 2020
Kind
B2
Abstract

A system and method for reducing the likelihood of colorectal cancer in a human being includes the modification of an individual's gut microbes by employing a Clustered Regularly Interspaced Short Palindromic Repeats-CRISPR-associated system (CRISPR-Cas) or Clustered Regularly Interspaced Short Palindromic Repeats from Prevotella and Francisella 1 (CRISPR/Cpf1) system to modify only bacterial genes of bacteria that reside in the human gut that are non-homologous to those encompassed in the human genome, and in particular, to administer a therapeutically effective amount of a bacterial formulation comprising F. prausnitzii that has been modified to produce one of alliin or butyrate.

Claims (7)

1. A method for reducing the likelihood of colorectal cancer in an individual human being, said method comprising: substantially reducing the human being's resident populations of gut microbes prior to administering a therapeutically effective amount of a bacterial formulation comprising Faecalibacterium prausnitzii ; and providing fructan fiber inulin in an amount sufficient to reduce the pH in the colon of the human being to achieve acidifying of the colon to enhance intestinal Mg.sup.2+ absorption by the human being.

2. The method of claim 1 , wherein the Faecalibacterium prausnitzii bacteria employed are first isolated from a human being's stool.

3. The method of claim 1 , wherein the Faecalibacterium prausnitzii bacteria employed are from the human being treated.

4. The method of claim 1 , further comprising reducing H. pylori populations in the individual human being.

5. The method of claim 1 , wherein the bacterial formulation comprises bacteria modified via a clustered regularly interspaced short pallindromic repeats (CRISPR) CRISPR associated protein (Cas) system to express p53.

6. The method of claim 1 , wherein said bacterial formulation further includes a microbe selected from the group consisting of Streptococcus, Veillonella, Fusobacterium and Treponema.

7. The method of claim 1 , wherein the bacterial formulation further comprises a bacterium selected from the group consisting of Chlamydia, Shigella flexneri, Mycoplasma bacteria , and H. pylori.

Assignments (2)
SECURITY INTEREST Recorded Jul 21, 2026
From: SEED HEALTH, INC.
To: JPMORGAN CHASE BANK, N.A., AS LENDER
Reel/Frame 076028/0339 →
ASSIGNMENT OF ASSIGNOR'S INTEREST Recorded Apr 12, 2022
From: KOVARIK, JOE
To: SEED HEALTH, INC.
Reel/Frame 059690/0210 →
Continuity (23)
Continuation In Part 15395419 · Dec 30, 2016
Continuation In Part 14752192 · Jun 26, 2015
Continuation In Part 14225503 · Mar 26, 2014
Continuation 13367052 · Feb 6, 2012
Continuation In Part 15270034 · Sep 20, 2016
Continuation In Part 14954074 · Nov 30, 2015
Continuation In Part 14574517 · Dec 18, 2014
Continuation In Part 15228454 · Aug 4, 2016
Continuation In Part 14611458 · Feb 2, 2015
Continuation In Part 14502097 · Sep 30, 2014
Continuation 14307651 · Jun 18, 2014
Continuation In Part 14079054 · Nov 13, 2013
Continuation 13425913 · Mar 21, 2012
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Provisional Application 61919297 · Dec 20, 2013
Provisional Application 62275341 · Jan 6, 2016
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