US Patent Issued to Astellas Institute for Regenerative Medicine on Feb. 10 for "Methods for detection of rare subpopulations of cells and highly purified composition of cells" (Massachusetts Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Feb. 11 -- United States Patent no. 12,545,945, issued on Feb. 10, was assigned to Astellas Institute for Regenerative Medicine (Westborough, Mass.).

"Methods for detection of rare subpopulations of cells and highly purified composition of cells" was invented by Irina Klimanskaya (Upton, Mass.) and Roger Gay (Acton, Mass.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Methods are provided for detection of a target cell type within a cell population, and compositions are provided comprising cells and an indicator that indicates the number of cells of the target cell type in the cell population. Examples are provided in which these methods are used to detect human embryonic stem cells within a...