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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Oct. 09, 2018
Filed:
May. 26, 2017
Whitehead Institute for Biomedical Research, Cambridge, MA (US);
Rudolf Jaenisch, Brookline, MA (US);
Yaqub Hanna, Boston, MA (US);
Marius Wernig, Woodside, CA (US);
Christopher J. Lengner, Wellesley, MA (US);
Alexander Meissner, Cambridge, MA (US);
Oliver Tobias Brambrink, Cambridge, MA (US);
G. Grant Welstead, Cambridge, MA (US);
Ruth Foreman, Somerville, MA (US);
Whitehead Institute for Biomedical Research, Cambridge, MA (US);
Abstract
The disclosure relates to a method of reprogramming one or more somatic cells, e.g., partially differentiated or fully/terminally differentiated somatic cells, to a less differentiated state, e.g., a pluripotent or multipotent state. In further embodiments the invention also relates to reprogrammed somatic cells produced by methods of the invention, to uses of said cells, and to methods for identifying agents useful for reprogramming somatic cells.