US Patent Issued to KEIO UNIVERSITY on Oct. 20 for "Method for promoting differentiation of pluripotent stem cells by reducing undifferentiated state thereof" (Japanese Inventor)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Oct. 21 -- United States Patent no. 12,767,930, issued on Oct. 20, was assigned to KEIO UNIVERSITY (Tokyo).

"Method for promoting differentiation of pluripotent stem cells by reducing undifferentiated state thereof" was invented by Minoru Ko (Tokyo).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "In related-art methods of differentiating pluripotent stem cells into a desired cell type, there has not been established a differentiation induction method using human ES/iPS cells and being highly efficient. Many attempts have been made, including a stepwise differentiation induction method based on the control of culture conditions or the addition of, for example, various cell growth factors/differ...