US Patent Issued to Korea University Research and Business Foundation on Feb. 3 for "Differentiation method of neural stem cells manufactured by direct cell conversion into astrocytes" (South Korean Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Feb. 3 -- United States Patent no. 12,540,310, issued on Feb. 3, was assigned to Korea University Research and Business Foundation (Seoul, South Korea).

"Differentiation method of neural stem cells manufactured by direct cell conversion into astrocytes" was invented by Sung Hoi Hong (Seoul, South Korea), Ahyoung Jang (Yongin-si, South Korea) and Kyung-Ah Choi (Cheorwon-gun, South Korea).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "The present invention relates to a method for efficiently differentiating neural stem cells into astrocytes and, more particularly, to a cell conversion-based method for more efficiently differentiating human neural stem cells into astrocytes that exhibit immune r...