US Patent Issued to KEIO UNIVERSITY on Aug. 25 for "Method for differentiating pluripotent stem cells into desired cell type" (Japanese Inventor)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Aug. 25 -- United States Patent no. 12,716,053, issued on Aug. 25, was assigned to KEIO UNIVERSITY (Tokyo).

"Method for differentiating pluripotent stem cells into desired cell type" was invented by Minoru Ko (Tokyo).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Provided is a method of differentiating a pluripotent stem cell of mammalian origin into a desired cell type by predicting the direction of cell differentiation to be caused by induction of expression of a transcription factor. A human gene expression correlation matrix using human cells has been newly created, and further, it has been confirmed that human pluripotent stem cells can be differentiated into a desired cell type by intro...