US Patent Issued to Monash University, National University of Singapore, NANTES UNIVERSITE on June 30 for "Methods for reprogramming cells" (Singaporean, Australian, French Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., July 16 -- United States Patent no. 12,668,775, issued on June 30, was assigned to Monash University (Clayton, Australia), National University of Singapore (Singapore) and NANTES UNIVERSITE (Nantes, France).

"Methods for reprogramming cells" was invented by Jose Polo (Clayton, Australia), Xiaodong Liu (Clayton, Australia), Kathryn Davidson (Clayton, Australia), Owen Rackham (Singapore), John F. Ouyang (Singapore), Laurent David (Nantes, France) and Gael Castel (Nantes, France).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "The present invention provides a method for reprogramming a human somatic cell to a cell exhibiting at least one characteristic of a trophoblast stem cell (TSC), the method...