US Patent Issued to LONDON HEALTH SCIENCES CENTRE RESEARCH on March 11 for "Expandable cell populations from brain biopsies of living subjects" (Canadian Inventor)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., March 12 -- United States Patent no. 12,247,218, issued on March 11, was assigned to LONDON HEALTH SCIENCES CENTRE RESEARCH INC. (London, Canada).

"Expandable cell populations from brain biopsies of living subjects" was invented by Matthew Olding Hebb (London, Canada).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "The present invention relates to a method of producing expandable cultured brain cells. The brain cells are neurotrophic factor (NTF) positive. The expandable cultured brain cells are obtained by culturing a biopsy obtained from the cortical and/or subcortical brain region of a living subject. The biopsies can be obtained during neurosurgical procedures such as deep brain stimulatio...