Gene Tools, LLC is a limited liability company located in Philomath, Oregon, United States that manufactures Morpholino antisense oligos and delivery reagents.
[1][2] Gene Tools was founded in 1997 and began regularly shipping custom-sequence Morpholino oligos in 2000.
Current products include Morpholino oligos and Vivo-Morpholinos (for improved delivery into cells).
The manager and general partner, Jim Summerton, is a pioneer in antisense research,[3] conceived of and was co-inventor of the Morpholino antisense oligo structural type[4] 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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