US Patent Issued to The Johns Hopkins University on July 8 for "Optically controllable FGFR stimulation using wireless controlled cellular lighting system" (Maryland Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., July 9 -- United States Patent no. 12,351,605, issued on July 8, was assigned to The Johns Hopkins University (Baltimore).

"Optically controllable FGFR stimulation using wireless controlled cellular lighting system" was invented by Gabsang Lee (Ellicott City, Md.), Hyesoo Kim (Baltimore), InYoung Choi (Baltimore), HoTae Lim (Baltimore) and Alex V. Huynh (Baltimore).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "The present invention relates to the field of stem cells. More specifically, the present invention provides compositions and methods for using optogenetics to sustain the pluripotency of stem cells. In one embodiment, a vector comprises a nucleotide sequencing encoding a fusion protein...