US Patent Issued to Genesis Technologies on May 12 for "Methods for reprogramming cells and uses thereof" (Canadian Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., May 12 -- United States Patent no. 12,624,342, issued on May 12, was assigned to Genesis Technologies Ltd. (St. Michael, Barbados).

"Methods for reprogramming cells and uses thereof" was invented by Jan-Eric Ahlfors (Laval, Canada) and Rouwayda El-Ayoubi (Laval, Canada).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A method of obtaining a pluripotent-like multipotent cell, including providing a cell of a first type which is not a pluripotent-like multipotent cell; contacting the cell of a first type with an agent capable of remodeling the chromatin and/or DNA of the cell; transiently increasing expression of at least one pluripotent gene regulator in the cell of a first type, to a level at w...