US Patent Issued to Cedars-Sinai Medical Center on July 14 for "And efficient method for reprogramming blood to induced pluripotent stem cells" (California Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., July 14 -- United States Patent no. 12,680,082, issued on July 14, was assigned to Cedars-Sinai Medical Center (Los Angeles).

"And efficient method for reprogramming blood to induced pluripotent stem cells" was invented by Dhruv Sareen (Porter Ranch, Calif.), Loren A. Ornelas (Los Angeles) and Clive Svendsen (Pacific Palisades, Calif.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Described herein are methods and compositions related to generation of induced pluripotent stem cells (iPSCs). Improved techniques for establishing highly efficient, reproducible reprogramming using non-integrating episomal plasmid vectors. Using the described reprogramming protocol, one is able to consistently rep...