US Patent Issued to CYNATA THERAPEUTICS on Feb. 10 for "Colony forming medium and use thereof" (Wisconsin, California Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Feb. 11 -- United States Patent no. 12,545,889, issued on Feb. 10, was assigned to CYNATA THERAPEUTICS Ltd. (Cremorne, Australia).

"Colony forming medium and use thereof" was invented by Igor Slukvin (Verona, Wis.), Gene Uenishi (San Francisco), Derek Hei (Madison, Wis.) and Diana Drier (Madison, Wis.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "The invention relates to a method for producing a mesenchymal stem cell (MSC), the method comprising culturing a primitive mesoderm cell in a mesenchymal colony forming medium (M-CFM) comprising LiCl and FGF2, but excluding PDGF, under normoxic conditions for sufficient time for a mesenchymal colony to form, and culturing the mesenchymal colony adh...