Technology › Bayer filed for stem cell patent before Kyoto Univ team

Monday 05th January, 06:50 AM JST TOKYO — German chemical giant Bayer AG applied for a patent in Japan on June 15, 2007, for a technique to generate induced pluripotent stem cells, or iPS cells, from human cells, according to Patent Office data released by Sunday. The application was submitted around three months before a Japanese team led by Kyoto University professor Shinya Yamanaka announced the successful generation of iPS cells from human cells. The data showed that... [read full story]                    

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