US Patent Issued to STOWERS INSTITUTE FOR MEDICAL RESEARCH, UNIVERSITY OF CHICAGO on July 15 for "Methods and compositions for expansion of cell population" (Missouri, Illinois, Kansas Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., July 16 -- United States Patent no. 12,359,200, issued on July 15, was assigned to STOWERS INSTITUTE FOR MEDICAL RESEARCH (Kansas City, Mo.) and UNIVERSITY OF CHICAGO (Chicago).

"Methods and compositions for expansion of cell population" was invented by Zhenrui Li (Kansas City, Kan.), Pengxu Qian (Kansas City, Mo.), Linheng Li (Kansas City, Mo.) and Chuan He (Chicago).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "The present invention relates to methods for expanding a stem cell population, as well as other cell populations. More particularly, the invention relates, inter alia, to methods and compositions for expanding a stem cell and/or other cell population, particularly a hematopoietic st...