US Patent Issued to THE UNITED STATES OF AMERICA, AS REPRESENTED BY THE SECRETARY, DEPARTMENT OF HEALTH AND HUMAN SERVICES on Sept. 8 for "Radial glia and astrocyte differentiation from human pluripotent stem cells" (Maryland Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Sept. 8 -- United States Patent no. 12,729,367, issued on Sept. 8, was assigned to THE UNITED STATES OF AMERICA, AS REPRESENTED BY THE SECRETARY, DEPARTMENT OF HEALTH AND HUMAN SERVICES (Bethesda, Md.).

"Radial glia and astrocyte differentiation from human pluripotent stem cells" was invented by Ilyas Singec (Gaithersburg, Md.), Vukasin Jovanovic (Rockville, Md.) and Anton Simeonov (Bethesda, Md.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Methods for generating multipotent radial glia-like cells and astrocyte-like cells from human pluripotent stem cells are provided along with the related compositions."

The patent was filed on Feb. 19, 2021, under Application No. 17/796,044.

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