US Patent Issued to National University Corporation Nagoya University on Aug. 5 for "Differentiation induction from human pluripotent stem cells into hypothalamic neurons" (Japanese Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Aug. 6 -- United States Patent no. 12,378,518, issued on Aug. 5, was assigned to National University Corporation Nagoya University (Nagoya, Japan).

"Differentiation induction from human pluripotent stem cells into hypothalamic neurons" was invented by Hidetaka Suga (Nagoya, Japan), Koichiro Ogawa (Nagoya, Japan), Takatoshi Kasai (Nagoya, Japan) and Hiroshi Arima (Nagoya, Japan).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "There is provided a method for efficient differentiation induction from human pluripotent stem cells into hypothalamic neurons. Also, provided is a method for constructing, from human pluripotent stem cells, a cellular structure in which hypothalamic tissue and pituitary t...