Endoderm cells from human embryonic stem cells
Patent Number: 7,326,572
Date of First Priority Issue: Friday December 7th, 2001
Date Issued: Tuesday February 5th, 2008
Assignee: Geron Corporation (Menlo Park, CA)
Inventors: Fisk; Gregory J. (Fremont, CA), Inokuma; Margaret S. (San Jose, CA)
From Class: Differentiation
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This is one of Geron's numerous patents covering not only composition of matter for various stem cells (licensed from WARF) but also methods of actually differentiating the cells into different other cells that are useful either potentially for therapy or for research use.
The current patent covers generation of endoderm through culturing of ES cells with Activin A and/or sodium butyrate.
View this patent on the USPTO website.
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