US Patent Issued to TACS Bio on Dec. 30 for "Adult stem cell compositions and methods of identification and isolation" (Massachusetts, New Hampshire Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Dec. 31 -- United States Patent no. 12,509,659, issued on Dec. 30, was assigned to TACS Bio Inc. (Perrineville, N.Y.).

"Adult stem cell compositions and methods of identification and isolation" was invented by Keith D. Crawford (Westwood, Mass.), Baldev Vasir (Boston) and John Garvey (Londonderry, N.H.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Methods, compositions and cells are provided that identify and isolate a population of adult non-embryonic progenitor cells having multilineage potential, physical diameters of about 2 micro metre to about 8 micro metre in size or about 4 micro metre to about 6 micro metre, and expressing at least one of the stem cell associated genes among Oct-4,...