US Patent Issued to JUNTENDO EDUCATIONAL FOUNDATION on April 21 for "Method for direct transdifferentiation of somatic cell" (Japanese Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., April 21 -- United States Patent no. 12,606,799, issued on April 21, was assigned to JUNTENDO EDUCATIONAL FOUNDATION (Bunkyo-ku, Japan).

"Method for direct transdifferentiation of somatic cell" was invented by Yasushi Okazaki (Bunkyo-ku, Japan), Masahito Matsumoto (Bunkyo-ku, Japan) and Hiroko Hagiwara (Bunkyo-ku, Japan).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A method of direct transdifferentiation of somatic cells into other somatic cells may be convenient and still have good reproducibility, excellent production efficiency, and short performed time. Methods for direct transdifferentiation of somatic cells into other somatic cells may include: (a) introducing a GLIS family gene, a mu...