Directed differentiation of human embryonic cells
Patent Number: 7045353
Date of First Priority Issue: Saturday January 8th, 2000
Date Issued: Tuesday May 16th, 2006
Assignee: Yissum Research Development Company of The Hebrew University of Jerusalem (Jerusalem, IL)
Inventor: Benvenisty, Nissim (Jerusalem, IL)
From Class: Differentiation
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This is basically the patent that covers how to generate neurons from embryonic stem cells. Of course the various composition of matter patents on embryonic stem cells (5,843,780, 6,200,806, 7,029,913) have to be in-licensed to use this invention. The invention has one broad independent claim which covers a method of differentiating human embryonic stem cells into neurons. The method basically involves forming embryonoid bodies, deaggregating embryoid bodies, culturing the deaggregated cells as a monolayer, and then adding various differentiation inducing stimuli.
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