US Patent Issued to Technion Research & Development Foundation on Sept. 16 for "Culture media, cell cultures and methods of culturing pluripotent stem cells in an undifferentiated state" (Israeli Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Sept. 17 -- United States Patent no. 12,415,985, issued on Sept. 16, was assigned to Technion Research & Development Foundation Ltd. (Haifa, Israel).

"Culture media, cell cultures and methods of culturing pluripotent stem cells in an undifferentiated state" was invented by Michal Amit (Yuvalim, Israel) and Joseph Itskovitz-Eldor (Haifa, Israel).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Provided are novel serum-free culture media which comprise basic fibroblast growth factor (bFGF), transforming growth factor beta-3 and ascorbic acid at a concentration of at least about 50 microgram/ml; ascorbic acid at a concentration range of about 400-600 microgram/ml, bFGF at a concentration range of ...