US Patent Issued to MESOBLAST on April 15 for "Isolation of adult multipotential cells by tissue non-specific alkaline phosphatase" (Australian Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 5 -- United States Patent no. 12,275,801, issued on April 15, was assigned to MESOBLAST INC. (New York).

"Isolation of adult multipotential cells by tissue non-specific alkaline phosphatase" was invented by Stan Gronthos (Adelaide, Australia), Andrew Christopher William Zannettino (Highbury, Australia) and John Paul Simmons (Kew, Australia).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "The present invention relates to the use of tissue non-specific alkaline phosphatase (TNAP) as a marker for identifying and/or isolating adult multipotential cells. The present invention also relates to cell populations enriched by methods of the present invention and therapeutic uses of these cells."

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