US Patent Issued to Aspen Neuroscience on March 3 for "Methods for differentiating dopaminergic neurons from stem cells" (California Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., March 3 -- United States Patent no. 12,565,639, issued on March 3, was assigned to Aspen Neuroscience Inc. (San Diego).

"Methods for differentiating dopaminergic neurons from stem cells" was invented by David Tastad (San Diego), Louisa Zebrowski (San Diego), Ai Zhang (San Diego) and Branden Clark (San Diego).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "The present disclosure provides methods of differentiating pluripotent stem cells, including induced pluripotent stem cells, into lineage-specific floor plate midbrain progenitor cells, determined dopaminergic neuronal progenitor cells, committed dopaminergic neuronal progenitor cells and/or dopaminergic neuronal cells. Also provided are comp...