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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
May. 20, 2014
Filed:
Apr. 22, 2009
Shuibing Chen, Arlington, MA (US);
Douglas A. Melton, Lexington, MA (US);
Malgorzata Borowiak, Somerville, MA (US);
Julia Lamenzo, Arlington, MA (US);
Stuart L. Schreiber, Boston, MA (US);
Lee F. Peng, Somerville, MA (US);
Lance Davidow, Lexington, MA (US);
Kelvin Lam, Arlington, MA (US);
Lee L. Rubin, Wellesley, MA (US);
Shuibing Chen, Arlington, MA (US);
Douglas A. Melton, Lexington, MA (US);
Malgorzata Borowiak, Somerville, MA (US);
Julia Lamenzo, Arlington, MA (US);
Stuart L. Schreiber, Boston, MA (US);
Lee F. Peng, Somerville, MA (US);
Lance Davidow, Lexington, MA (US);
Kelvin Lam, Arlington, MA (US);
Lee L. Rubin, Wellesley, MA (US);
President and Fellows of Harvard College, Cambridge, MA (US);
The General Hospital Corporation, Boston, MA (US);
Abstract
Certain embodiments disclosed herein are directed to a method of producing pancreatic cells or pancreatic cell precursors by exposing human embryonic stem cells to an effective amount of at least one compound listed in Table I to differentiate the human embryonic stem cells into the pancreatic cells or the pancreatic cell precursors. Kits and pancreatic cell lines produced using the methods are also described.