US Patent Issued to The Hospital for Sick Children on May 27 for "Method of generating hemangioblasts" (Canadian Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 17 -- United States Patent no. 12,312,598, issued on May 27, was assigned to The Hospital for Sick Children (Toronto).

"Method of generating hemangioblasts" was invented by Sheena Bouch (Toronto), Michael Litvack (Toronto) and Martin Post (Toronto).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A method of differentiating pluripotent stem cells into hemangioblasts comprising incubating the pluripotent stem cells in a first serum-free differentiation medium comprising bone morphogenetic protein 4 (BMP4), vascular endothelial growth factor (VEGF) and stem cell factor (SCF) to induce differentiation of the pluripotent stem cells into hemangioblasts or hemangioblast-containing embryoid bodie...