2 stem cell patents issued last week

View this message online Dear manoj kumar valluru, Last week 2 patents of relevance to the area of stem cells were issued. # 7,384,748 (Patent Spotlight), covers mutations associated with motor neuron disease. # 7,384,786 teaches production of a new type of scaffold for growing stem cells which may be used for cardiac repair.     Compositions and methods for detecting and treating motor neuron disorders     Patent Number: 7,384,748 Assignee | Inventor The issued claim in the current patent covers a method of diagnosing a motor neuron disease based on sequences associated with mutations in the neuropathy target esterase (NTE) gene. If one reads the specification, descriptions of treatments based on inhibiting expression of the mutated NTE gene using techniques such as siRNA are disclosed...[Read More] Ask a question OR leave your comments.     Mesenchymal Stem Cells for Multiple Sclerosis Thursday June 12th, 2008 @ 03:30:25 EST Jerusalem, Israel - Stem cell therapy for conditions such as multiple sclerosis is promising in part because of the possibility of remyelination, as well as the immune modulatory properties of the stem cells, especially mesenchymal stem cells.   While...[Read More] Ask a question OR leave your comments. Read more StemCellPatents.com News     RECENTLY ADDED PATENTS     Aligned scaffolds for improved myocardial regeneration (7,384,786) Assignee | Inventor | Ask a question OR leave your comments     Compositions and methods for detecting and treating motor neuron disorders (7,384,748) Assignee | Inventor | Ask a question OR leave your comments     Use of cytokines and mitogens to inhibit graft versus host disease (7,381,563) Assignee | Inventor | Ask a question OR leave your comments     Enriched central nervous system stem cell and progenitor cell populations, and methods for identifying, isolating and enriching for such populations (7,381,561) Assignee | Inventor | Ask a question OR leave your comments     Transgenic pigs carrying both hHO-1 and hDAF transgenes for xenotransplantation (7,378,569) Assignee | Inventor | Ask a question OR leave your comments     Isolation and expansion of human marrow stromal cells (7,374,937) Assignee | Inventor | Ask a question OR leave your comments     Methods and compositions for nerve regeneration (7,374,760) Assignee | Inventor | Ask a question OR leave your comments     In vivo synthesis of connective tissues (7,375,077) Assignee | Inventor | Ask a question OR leave your comments     CD56 positive human adult pancreatic endocrine progenitor cells (7,371,576) Assignee | Inventor | Ask a question OR leave your comments     Propagation and/or derivation of embryonic stem cells (7,371,573) Assignee | Inventor | Ask a question OR leave your comments     View all 1299 Stem Cell Patents on StemCellPatents.com     LATEST NEWS     Stroke without thrombolytics calls stem cells 6 hours ago     Mesenchymal Stem Cells for Multiple Sclerosis 4 days ago     Notch Ligand Inhibits Angiogenesis 4 days ago     T regulatory cells that inhibit multiple sclerosis that are not T reg June 4th     Temporary Hypoxia is Good for Mesenchymal Stem Cells June 3rd     Read more news on StemCellPatents.com     LATEST JOBS POSTS     Patent Proscecution Technology Specialist or Scientific Advisor Crescent Strategic Resources     Attorney- Patent Litigation Associate Crescent Strategic Resources     View the StemCellPatents.com Job Board       We thank-you again for supporting StemCellPatents.com ------------------------------------------------------------ To unsubscribe, click here. Delivered: Monday June 16th, 2008 @ 08:50:25 EST