ALEXANDRIA, Va., March 31 -- United States Patent no. 12,590,290, issued on March 31, was assigned to Mackay Medical College (New Taipei City, Taiwan).
"Method for treating and modelling hearing loss" was invented by Yi-Chao Hsu (New Taipei City, Taiwan).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A method for treating hearing loss in a subject in need thereof is provided. The method includes providing a combination of transcription factors to induce generation of a hair cell-like cell, thereby treating the hearing loss in the subject. The generated hair cell-like cells exhibit characteristic of mature functional cells that is useful in cell replacement therapy for autologous transplantation."
The patent ...