ALEXANDRIA, Va., March 19 -- United States Patent no. 12,252,710, issued on March 18, was assigned to THE ROYAL INSTITUTION FOR THE ADVANCEMENT OF LEARNING/MCGILL UNIVERSITY (Montreal, Canada).

"Cationic dendrimers for the culture of adherent cells" was invented by Timothy E. Kennedy (Montreal), Jean-Pierre Clement (Montreal) and Laila Al-Alwan (Montreal).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "The present disclosure concerns a cell or tissue culture system comprising a solid support for the culture of adherent cells or adherent tissues and a plurality of cationic dendrimers associated to the surface of the solid support. Each cationic dendrimer includes one or more functional amine group. The cationic...