US Patent Issued to Central Institute for Experimental Animals on June 2 for "Non-human vertebrate comprising human liver cells transplanted therein and method for producing the same" (Japanese Inventor)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 2 -- United States Patent no. 12,642,257, issued on June 2, was assigned to Central Institute for Experimental Animals (Kanagawa, Japan).

"Non-human vertebrate comprising human liver cells transplanted therein and method for producing the same" was invented by Hiroshi Suemizu (Kawasaki, Japan).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "This invention provides a non-human vertebrate exhibiting a higher human liver cell growth rate, a higher human liver cell replacement rate, and higher histological-physiological human reproducibility than existing non-human vertebrates comprising the human liver transplanted therein and a method for producing such non-human vertebrate. Specifically, t...