US Patent Issued to Agency for Science, Technology and Research on Feb. 24 for "Method for isolating a cardiomyocyte population" (Singaporean Inventor)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Feb. 24 -- United States Patent no. 12,559,721, issued on Feb. 24, was assigned to Agency for Science, Technology and Research (Singapore).

"Method for isolating a cardiomyocyte population" was invented by Boon Seng Soh (Singapore).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "The present application relates to, inter alia, the identification, isolation and/or purification of cardiomyocytes in a sample. The method for isolating a cardiomyocyte population from a heterogeneous population of differentiated cells comprises: (a) contacting the sample with at least one agent that specifically binds to at least one cardiomyocyte surface marker selected from JAK2, DDR2, ACVRL1, CD200, SRPX, PRKACB, ...