US Patent Issued to UNIVERSITY OF SOUTH CAROLINA on March 25 for "Culture system and media for skin explants providing enhanced viability and enabling molecular studies" (South Carolina Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., March 26 -- United States Patent no. 12,258,586, issued on March 25, was assigned to UNIVERSITY OF SOUTH CAROLINA (Columbia, S.C.).

"Culture system and media for skin explants providing enhanced viability and enabling molecular studies" was invented by Carole A. Oskeritzian (Columbia, S.C.) and Alena P. Chumanevich (Lexington, S.C.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Embodiments of the invention include systems and media for mammalian cell culture that enhance cell viability which enables biological assays and quantitative studies in tissues such as skin explants. Certain embodiments may be used in coordination with each other or may be practiced separately. An exemplary embodimen...