ALEXANDRIA, Va., Feb. 24 -- United States Patent no. 12,559,715, issued on Feb. 24, was assigned to China Agricultural University (Beijing).

"Cell growth promoter and application thereof" was invented by Yixuan Li (Beijing), Weibo Zhang (Beijing), Yinhua Zhu (Beijing), Pengjie Wang (Beijing), Yanan Sun (Beijing), Juan Chen (Beijing), Liang Zhao (Beijing), Ruixin Zhu (Beijing) and Ran Wang (Beijing).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A cell growth promoter and an application thereof are provided. The invention adopts Fe2+ and ovalbumin to form a Fe2+-ovalbumin (OVA) compound to promote ovalbumin cell endocytosis, the cell growth promoter can maintain cell growth in an environment free of amino acid...