US Patent Issued to University of Houston System on July 8 for "Stem cell culture systems for columnar epithelial stem cells, and uses related thereto" (Texas, Massachusetts Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., July 9 -- United States Patent no. 12,351,822, issued on July 8, was assigned to University of Houston System (Houston).

"Stem cell culture systems for columnar epithelial stem cells, and uses related thereto" was invented by Wa Xian (Sugar Land, Texas), Frank McKeon (Sugar Land, Texas) and Matthew P. Vincent (Amesbury, Mass.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "The present invention relates to a culture media system that useful for the isolation and epigenetically stable propagation of normal stem cells in culture which are derived from columnar epithelial tissues and cancer stem cells from epithelial cancers. In certain embodiments, the culture system is a feeder-free system."

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