ALEXANDRIA, Va., March 17 -- United States Patent no. 12,577,536, issued on March 17, was assigned to KYOTO UNIVERSITY (Kyoto, Japan).
"Method for isolating ureteric bud tip cells" was invented by Kenji Osafune (Kyoto, Japan), Shinichi Mae (Kyoto, Japan) and Makoto Ryosaka (Kyoto, Japan).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Provided is a method for isolating a ureteric bud tip cell from cells, a tissue, or an organoid comprising the ureteric bud tip cell, comprising the following steps of contacting the cells, tissue, or organoid comprising the ureteric bud tip cell with a very low density lipoprotein receptor (VLDL-R) binding agent, and isolating the ureteric bud tip cell using the binding agent as...