US Patent Issued to ASPECT BIOSYSTEMS on July 21 for "Generation of pancreatic endoderm from stem cell derived definitive endoderm" (Danish Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., July 21 -- United States Patent no. 12,686,855, issued on July 21, was assigned to ASPECT BIOSYSTEMS LTD. (Vancouver, Canada).

"Generation of pancreatic endoderm from stem cell derived definitive endoderm" was invented by Dorthe Roenn Petersen (Slangerup, Denmark) and Christian Honore (Vanloese, Denmark).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "The present invention relates to methods of efficiently generating pancreatic endoderm from human pluripotent stem (PS) cell derived human definitive endoderm. The present invention also relates to pancreatic endoderm cells obtained by the methods of the invention. Finally, the present invention relates to culture medium and composition comprisin...