US Patent Issued to ACADEMIA SINICA on June 23 for "Methods for enhancing lifespan and/or treating cellular proliferative disorders by transplantation" (Taiwanese Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., July 15 -- United States Patent no. 12,661,378, issued on June 23, was assigned to ACADEMIA SINICA (Taipei, Taiwan).

"Methods for enhancing lifespan and/or treating cellular proliferative disorders by transplantation" was invented by Che-Kun James Shen (Taipei City, Taiwan), Yu-Chiau Shyu (Keelung, Taiwan) and Chun-Hao Hung (Tainan City, Taiwan).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "The invention found that first, the feasibility of transfer of tumor resistance and other healthy longevity characters through transplantation of bone marrow mononuclear cells (BMMNC) or hematopoietic stem cells (HSC)/hematopoietic stem and progenitor cells (HSPC) consisting of genetically engineered EKLF...