US Patent Issued to Keio University, RACTHERA on Jan. 27 for "Method for producing cell aggregate including glial progenitor cells" (Japanese Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Jan. 28 -- United States Patent no. 12,533,383, issued on Jan. 27, was assigned to Keio University (Tokyo) and RACTHERA Co. Ltd. (Tokyo).

"Method for producing cell aggregate including glial progenitor cells" was invented by Jun Kohyama (Tokyo), Yasuhiro Kamata (Tokyo), Masaya Nakamura (Tokyo), Hideyuki Okano (Tokyo), Miho Saito (Kobe, Japan) and Mitsuhiro Inoue (Kobe, Japan).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "The method for producing a cell aggregate including glial progenitor cells according to the present invention comprises: (1) a step of subjecting pluripotent stem cells to suspension culture in an embryoid-body-forming culture medium containing one or more SMAD signaling inh...