Headquarters Oregon, United States | Founded 1997 | |
Gene Tools, LLC is a limited liability company located in Philomath, Oregon, United States that manufactures Morpholino antisense oligos and delivery reagents. Gene Tools was founded in 1997 and began regularly shipping custom-sequence Morpholino oligos in 2000. Current products include Morpholino oligos, Vivo-Morpholinos (for improved delivery into cells) and Photo-Morpholinos (cleavable by 365nm light).
The manager and general partner, Jim Summerton, is a pioneer in antisense research, conceived of and was co-inventor of the Morpholino antisense oligo structural type and founded the first antisense therapeutics company, Sarepta Therapeutics Inc. (formerly AntiVirals Inc., renamed AVI BioPharma Inc., renamed Sarepta Therapeutics Inc.).
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