Methods and materials for the growth of primate-derived primordial stem cells in feeder-free culture
Patent Number: 6800480
Date of First Priority Issue: Thursday October 23rd, 1997
Date Issued: Tuesday October 5th, 2004
Assignee: Geron Corporation (Menlo Park, CA)
Inventors: Bodnar, Andrea G. (Oshawa, CA); Chiu, Choy-Pik (Cupertino, CA); Gold, Joseph D. (San Francisco, CA); Inokuma, Margaret (San Jose, CA); Murai, James T. (San Bruno, CA); West, Michael D. (Boston, MA)
From Class: Expansion
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This patent teaches how to grow embryonic stem cells in absence of feeder cells. This is a useful "base patent" that is essential to generation of therapeutics from embryonic stem cells, since it is usually not desired to use feeder cell layers in culture of embryonic stem cells for clinical use.
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