US Patent Issued to NATIONAL UNIVERSITY CORPORATION KOBE UNIVERSITY on Jan. 20 for "Method for producing induced pluripotent stem cells" (Japanese Inventor)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Jan. 20 -- United States Patent no. 12,529,035, issued on Jan. 20, was assigned to NATIONAL UNIVERSITY CORPORATION KOBE UNIVERSITY (Hyogo, Japan).

"Method for producing induced pluripotent stem cells" was invented by Takashi Aoi (Hyogo, Japan).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Provided is a method of generating iPS cells. Specifically, provided is a method of generating iPS cells having a rearranged GammaDelta-TCR gene. Also provided is a cell population including the generated iPS cells. The method includes stimulating collected blood cells with IL-2 and a bisphosphonate, and then introducing cell reprogramming factors through use of a Sendai virus (SeV) vector. According to the...