US Patent Issued to UNIST (ULSAN NATIONAL INSTITUTE OF SCIENCE TECHNOLOGY) on Oct. 6 for "Composition for inducing direct cross differentiation of somatic cell into motor neuron, and method for using same" (South Korean Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Oct. 6 -- United States Patent no. 12,753,385, issued on Oct. 6, was assigned to UNIST (ULSAN NATIONAL INSTITUTE OF SCIENCE TECHNOLOGY) (Daejeon, South Korea).

"Composition for inducing direct cross differentiation of somatic cell into motor neuron, and method for using same" was invented by Jeong Beom Kim (Ulsan, South Korea) and Hyun Ah Lee (Ulsan, South Korea).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Provided are a composition for inducing direct conversion from a somatic cell into a motor neuron, a motor neuron induced through direct conversion by introducing the composition into a somatic cell, a pharmaceutical composition for the prevention or treatment of nervous system disease a...