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Patent application number | Title | Published |
20150297294 | TOOLS AND INSTRUMENTS FOR USE WITH IMPLANTABLE ENCSAPSULATION DEVICES - Embodiments herein describe tools and instruments for holding, transferring, delivering, deploying an implantable device and methods and means of aseptically storing and shipping the implantable device including but not limited to a device case for protecting, housing and filling the device, a surgical sizer for preparing the implantable site, a deployer for transferring the implantable device from the device case and delivering or deploying the implantable device at the prepared implantable site. | 10-22-2015 |
20140271566 | IN VITRO DIFFERENTIATION OF PLURIPOTENT STEM CELLS TO PANCREATIC ENDODERM CELLS (PEC) AND ENDOCRINE CELLS - A human immature endocrine cell population and methods for making an immature endocrine cell population are provided. Specifically, immature beta cells and methods for production of immature beta cells are described. Immature beta cells co-express INS and NKX6.1 and are uni-potent and thereby develop into mature beta cells when implanted in vivo. The mature beta cells in vivo are capable of producing insulin in response to glucose stimulation. | 09-18-2014 |
20140257515 | 3-DIMENSIONAL LARGE CAPACITY CELL ENCAPSULATION DEVICE ASSEMBLY - Disclosed herein are implantable 3-dimensional large capacity device assemblies, specifically, large capacity device assemblies for encapsulating pancreatic progenitor cells for treatment of diabetes. | 09-11-2014 |
20140193905 | EXPANSION OF DEFINITIVE ENDODERM CELLS - Disclosed herein are cell cultures comprising expanded definitive endoderm cells as well as methods for expanding definitive endoderm cells in culture. | 07-10-2014 |
20140193904 | PDX1 EXPRESSING ENDODERM - Disclosed herein are cell cultures comprising PDX1-positive endoderm cells and methods of producing the same. Also disclosed herein are cell populations comprising substantially purified PDX1-positive endoderm cells as well as methods for enriching, isolating and purifying PDX1-positive endoderm cells from other cell types. Methods of identifying differentiation factors capable of promoting the differentiation of endoderm cells, such as PDX1-positive foregut endoderm cells and PDX1-negative definitive endoderm cells, are also disclosed. | 07-10-2014 |
20140186948 | SMALL MOLECULES SUPPORTING PLURIPOTENT CELL GROWTH AND METHODS THEREOF - The present invention relates to compositions and methods for maintaining undifferentiated pluripotent stem cell cultures. | 07-03-2014 |
20140154802 | Compositions and Methods Useful for Culturing Differentiable Cells - The present invention relates to cell culture methods and compositions that are essentially serum-free and comprise a basal salt nutrient solution and an ErbB3 ligand. | 06-05-2014 |
20140154801 | ENDOCRINE PRECURSOR CELLS, PANCREATIV HORMONE-EXPRESSING CELLS AND METHOS OF PRODUCTION - Disclosed herein are cell cultures and enriched cell populations of endocrine precursor cells, immature pancreatic hormone-expressing cells and mature pancreatic hormone-expressing cells. Also disclosed herein are methods of producing such cell cultures and cell populations. | 06-05-2014 |
20140134727 | DEFINITIVE ENDODERM - Disclosed herein are cell cultures comprising definitive endoderm cells and methods of producing the same. Also disclosed herein are cell populations comprising substantially purified definitive endoderm cells as well as methods for enriching, isolating and purifying definitive endoderm cells from other cell types. | 05-15-2014 |
20140134726 | MARKERS OF DEFINITIVE ENDODERM - Disclosed herein are reagent-cell complexes comprising one or more definitive endoderm cells. Also described herein are compositions for detecting definitive endoderm. Method of enriching, isolating and/or purifying definitive endoderm cells are also disclosed. | 05-15-2014 |
20140099713 | METHODS AND COMPOSITIONS FOR FEEDER-FREE PLURIPOTENT STEM CELL MEDIA CONTAINING HUMAN SERUM - The present invention provides compositions and methods for the culture and maintenance of pluripotent stem cells. More particularly, the present invention provides for compositions and methods for culturing, maintaining, growing and stabilizing primate pluripotent stem cells in a feeder-free defined media further comprising human serum, or a soluble attachment component of the human serum, for promoting cell attachment. | 04-10-2014 |
20130316357 | PDX1-EXPRESSING DORSAL AND VENTRAL FOREGUT ENDODERM - Disclosed herein are cell cultures comprising dorsal and/or ventral PDX1-positive foregut endoderm cells and methods of producing the same. Also disclosed herein are cell populations comprising substantially purified dorsal and/or ventral PDX1-positive foregut endoderm cells as well as methods for enriching, isolating and purifying dorsal and/or ventral PDX1-positive foregut endoderm cells from other cell types. Methods of identifying differentiation factors capable of promoting the differentiation of dorsal and/or ventral PDX1-positive foregut endoderm cells, are also disclosed. | 11-28-2013 |
20130309708 | Compositions and Methods Useful for Culturing Differentiable Cells - The present invention relates to cell culture methods and compositions that are essentially serum-free and comprise a basal salt nutrient solution and an ErbB3 ligand. | 11-21-2013 |
20130280802 | AGENTS AND METHODS FOR INHIBITING HUMAN PLURIPOTENT STEM CELL GROWTH - The present invention relates to compositions and methods for inhibiting or suppressing undifferentiated or pluripotent stem cell growth and proliferation in a differentiated or differentiating cell population or culture. | 10-24-2013 |
20130209425 | ENCAPSULATION OF PANCREATIC CELLS DERIVED FROM HUMAN PLURIPOTENT STEM CELLS - The present invention relates to methods for encapsulating pancreatic progenitors in a biocompatible semi-permeable encapsulating device. The present invention also relates to production of human insulin in a mammal in response to glucose stimulation. | 08-15-2013 |
20130164787 | CELL COMPOSITIONS DERIVED FROM DEDIFFERENTIATED REPROGRAMMED CELLS - Disclosed herein are cell culture compositions, for example, pancreatic cell culture compositions, derived from dedifferentiated human reprogrammed pluripotent stem cells, such as induced pluripotent stem (iPS) cells, and methods for producing and using such cell culture compositions. | 06-27-2013 |
20130122520 | METHODS FOR PURIFYING ENDODERM AND PANCREATIC ENDODERM CELLS DERIVED FROM HUMAN EMBRYONIC STEM CELLS - The present disclosure relates to compositions and methods comprising cell surface markers for hES-derived cells, in particular, endoderm lineage cells including pancreatic endoderm-type cells, derived from hES cells. | 05-16-2013 |
20130115695 | SCALABLE PRIMATE PLURIPOTENT STEM CELL AGGREGATE SUSPENSION CULTURE AND DIFFERENTIATION THEREOF - The present invention relates to methods for production of undifferentiated or differentiated embryonic stem cell aggregate suspension cultures from undifferentiated or differentiated embryonic stem cell single cell suspensions and methods of differentiation thereof. | 05-09-2013 |
20120214237 | COMPOSITIONS AND METHODS USEFUL FOR CULTURING DIFFERENTIABLE CELLS - The present invention relates to cell culture methods and compositions that are essentially serum-free and comprise a basal salt nutrient solution and an ErbB3 ligand. | 08-23-2012 |
20120045830 | STEM CELL AGGREGATE SUSPENSION COMPOSITIONS AND METHODS OF DIFFERENTIATION THEREOF - The present invention relates to methods for production of undifferentiated or differentiated embryonic stem cell aggregate suspension cultures from undifferentiated or differentiated embryonic stem cell single cell suspensions and methods of differentiation thereof. | 02-23-2012 |
20120021513 | SMALL MOLECULES SUPPORTING PLURIPOTENT CELL GROWTH AND METHODS THEREOF - The present invention relates to compositions and methods for maintaining undifferentiated pluripotent stem cell cultures. | 01-26-2012 |
20100311164 | METHODS AND COMPOSITIONS FOR FEEDER-FREE PLURIPOTENT STEM CELL MEDIA CONTAINING HUMAN SERUM - The present invention provides compositions and methods for the culture and maintenance of pluripotent stem cells. More particularly, the present invention provides for compositions and methods for culturing, maintaining, growing and stabilizing primate pluripotent stem cells in a feeder-free defined media further comprising human serum, or a soluble attachment component of the human serum, for promoting cell attachment. | 12-09-2010 |