US Patent Issued to NAGASAKI UNIVERSITY on Nov. 25 for "Method for manufacturing cell population including liver precursor cells" (Japanese Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Nov. 25 -- United States Patent no. 12,478,645, issued on Nov. 25, was assigned to NAGASAKI UNIVERSITY (Nagasaki, Japan).

"Method for manufacturing cell population including liver precursor cells" was invented by Yusuke Sakai (Nagasaki, Japan) and Susumu Eguchi (Nagasaki, Japan).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A method for producing a cell population containing liver progenitor cells, including the steps of (1) preparing a culture substratum containing a cell population comprising liver progenitor cells and fibroblasts, (2) physically removing the fibroblast colony from the culture substratum, (3) detaching cells from the culture substratum, and recovering the detached cells, a...