US Patent Issued to CHUNG-ANG UNIVERSITY INDUSTRY-ACADEMIC COOPERATION FOUNDATION on May 27 for "Method of transdifferentiating hair follicle stem cells into sperm stem cells" (South Korean Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 17 -- United States Patent no. 12,312,596, issued on May 27, was assigned to CHUNG-ANG UNIVERSITY INDUSTRY-ACADEMIC COOPERATION FOUNDATION (Seoul, South Korea).

"Method of transdifferentiating hair follicle stem cells into sperm stem cells" was invented by Buom-Yong Ryu (Gyeonggi-do, South Korea) and Yong-Hee Kim (Seoul, South Korea).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "The present invention relates to a method for differentiating hair follicle cells into germline stem cells, germline stem cells differentiated by the method, and use of the same germline stem cells. A method of differentiating hair follicle cells into germline stem cells according to the present invention can di...