ALEXANDRIA, Va., Aug. 5 -- United States Patent no. 12,699,082, issued on Aug. 4, was assigned to Yonsei University BioHealth Technology Holdings Inc. (Seoul, South Korea).

"Method for construction of pancreatic cancer organoid" was invented by Jong Baeck Lim (Seoul, South Korea), Jae Il Choi (Seoul, South Korea), Joon Seong Park (Gyeonggi-do, South Korea), Sung Ill Jang (Seoul, South Korea) and Jae Hee Cho (Seoul, South Korea).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Pancreatic cancer organoids prepared by a method of the present invention sufficiently reflect the interaction between cancer cells and endothelial cells, that is, cross-talk with the vascular niche, and thus they can show the characterist...