ALEXANDRIA, Va., July 30 -- United States Patent no. 12,370,222, issued on July 29, was assigned to STEMCELL TECHNOLOGIES CANADA INC. (Vancouver, Canada).
"Compositions and methods for obtaining organoids" was invented by Charis-Patricia Segeritz (Vancouver, Canada), Ryan Conder (Vancouver, Canada) and Michael Riedel (Vancouver, Canada).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A method for obtaining epithelial organoids is provided. In one embodiment, the method comprises culturing one or more epithelial ducts, epithelial duct fragments and/or epithelial stem cells isolated therefrom in contact with an extracellular matrix in the presence of a basal medium, wherein the medium is free of FGF and/or nicot...