US Patent Issued to MURDOCH CHILDRENS RESEARCH INSTITUTE on Sept. 29 for "Haematopoietic stem/progenitor cells" (Australian Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Sept. 30 -- United States Patent no. 12,747,424, issued on Sept. 29, was assigned to MURDOCH CHILDRENS RESEARCH INSTITUTE (Parkville, Australia).

"Haematopoietic stem/progenitor cells" was invented by Elizabeth Ng (Parkville, Australia), Edouard Stanley (Ascot Vale, Australia) and Andrew Elefanty (Surrey Hills, Australia).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "The invention relates to an isolated cell having, after culturing a pluripotent stem cell (PSC) in a medium comprising a WNT agonist and an ACTIVIN antagonist, increased HOXA gene expression relative to a PSC not cultured in a medium comprising a WNT agonist and an ACTIVIN antagonist, wherein the cell with increased HOXA gene ex...