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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Sep. 08, 2020
Filed:
Dec. 17, 2018
Applicant:
President and Fellows of Harvard College, Cambridge, MA (US);
Inventors:
Victor Chun Li, Boston, MA (US);
Marc W. Kirschner, Newton, MA (US);
Assignee:
PRESIDENT AND FELLOWS OF HARVARD COLLEGE, Cambridge, MA (US);
Primary Examiner:
Int. Cl.
CPC ...
C12N 15/00 (2006.01); C12N 5/02 (2006.01); C12N 5/00 (2006.01); C12N 5/0793 (2010.01); C12N 5/0735 (2010.01);
U.S. Cl.
CPC ...
C12N 5/0619 (2013.01); C12N 5/0606 (2013.01); C12N 2501/405 (2013.01); C12N 2501/60 (2013.01); C12N 2501/606 (2013.01); C12N 2501/727 (2013.01); C12N 2506/02 (2013.01);
Abstract
Described herein are methods relating to the differentiation of stem cells to more differentiated phenotypes, e.g. to terminally differentiated cell types and/or precursors thereof. In some embodiments, the methods relate to contacting the stem cells with differentiation factors and halting the cell cycle, thereby increasing the rate of differentiation.