US Patent Issued to Vertex Pharmaceuticals on May 26 for "Methods of enhancing stem cell differentiation into beta cells" (Massachusetts Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., May 26 -- United States Patent no. 12,637,661, issued on May 26, was assigned to Vertex Pharmaceuticals Inc. (Boston).

"Methods of enhancing stem cell differentiation into beta cells" was invented by Felicia Pagliuca (Boston), George Harb (Boston), Mads Gurtler (Cambridge, Mass.), Austin Thiel (Southborough, Mass.), Jihad Yasin (Gardner, Mass.) and Evrett Thompson (Woburn, Mass.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Disclosed herein are compositions and methods of enhancing stem cell differentiation into beta cells with use of one or more epigenetic modification compounds. The present disclosure also relates to compositions and methods of sorting and enriching the differentiated bet...