Method of enriching for mammalian stem cells
Patent Number: 6146888
Date of First Priority Issue: Thursday April 21st, 1994
Date Issued: Tuesday November 14th, 2000
Assignee: The University of Edinburgh (GB)
Inventors: Smith, Austin Gerard (Edinburgh, GB); Mountford, Peter Scott (Elsfernwid, AU)
From Class: Extraction/Preservation
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In this patent an antibiotic resistance gene is placed under the control of a promoter associated with stem cells. This way only the stem cells will live while the other cells will die when exposed to the antibiotic.
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