US Patent Issued to California Institute of Technology on May 5 for "Methods, culture medias and devices for generating embryos in vitro from stem cells" (British, American Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., May 5 -- United States Patent no. 12,618,830, issued on May 5, was assigned to California Institute of Technology (Pasadena, Calif.).

"Methods, culture medias and devices for generating embryos in vitro from stem cells" was invented by Magdalena D. Zernicka-Goetz (Pasadena, Calif.), Gianluca Amadei (Cambridge, Great Britain) and Charlotte Handford (Cambridge, Great Britain).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Disclosed herein include methods and compositions for culture medias for in vitro culture of synthetic embryos from mammalian pluripotent stem cells and extra-embryonic stem cells. The methods and compositions described herein can generate synthetic embryos at different develo...