US Patent Issued to KYOTO UNIVERSITY on March 3 for "Method for inducing ureteric bud-like tissue" (Japanese Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., March 3 -- United States Patent no. 12,565,640, issued on March 3, was assigned to KYOTO UNIVERSITY (Kyoto, Japan).

"Method for inducing ureteric bud-like tissue" 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: "An object of the present application is to provide a method for inducing the differentiation from pluripotent stem cells, particularly iPS cells and ES cells, into ureteric bud cells. Another object of the present application is to provide a system for producing ureteric bud-like tissue from pluripotent stem cells through each stage of differentiations, i.e. anterior primitive str...