Stem cell patent news (2/15/10)

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1) Isolation of stem cells and cancer stem cells using antibodies
against human Leucine-rich-repeat- containing G-protein-coupled
receptors
2) SLUG, OVOL1 and OVOL2 as cancer stem cell markers
3) Micro RNA’s for the characterization of stem cells
4) Methods of generating functional tendon grafts, bone, cartilage and
connective tissues from stem cells
5) Bone marrow-derived stem cells fused to pancreatic beta cells for
the treatment of diabetes
6) In vivo multiplication of hair from hair stem cells
7) Increasing stem cell expansion by inhibiting P2Y14 receptor
expression
8) Activation of stem cells using thrombin-like enzyme, batroxobin
9) Unrestricted somatic stem cells (USSCs ) from umbilical cord blood
to promote the expansion and engraftment nucleated cells
10) Stem cells for treating ischemic or hemorrhagic stroke
11) Culture of human embryonic stem cells in a fully humanised
chemically defined medium and differentiation into primary germ layer
progenitor cells
12) A method for inducing proliferation and differentiation of a
neuronal progenitor cell into neurons for the treatment of
neurological or psychiatric diseases
13) Inducing osteoblastic differentiation of mesenchymal stem cells
using synthetic oxysterols
14) Embryonic stem cell (ESC)-like cells from adult mammalian testis
15) Expanding human stem cells using retinoic acid receptor (RXR)
modulators
16) Stem cells isolated from human salivary gland
17) Hypoxic bone marrow stem cells for the treatment of heart failure
18) Expanding ex vivo a population of HSCs using microRNA, miR-125a
19) Differentiation of stem cells by modulating the level or activity
of a miRNA
20) Treatment of nerve injury using stem cells
21) Osteogenic differentiation of mesenchymal stem cells using
agonists of integrin alpha 5 (ITGA5)
22) A universal stem cell culture medium using rice derived products

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