Patents by Inventor Yvonne A. Reid

Yvonne A. Reid has filed for patents to protect the following inventions. This listing includes patent applications that are pending as well as patents that have already been granted by the United States Patent and Trademark Office (USPTO).

  • Neonatal human hepatocytes immortalized using tert and methods of their use
    Publication number: 20090155232
    Abstract: The present invention relates to the discovery of immortalized neonatal human hepatocytes that exhibit phenotypic features of human hepatic progenitor cells. The invention is also directed to a method of obtaining telomerase-immortalized neonatal human hepatocytes that exhibit phenotypic features of human hepatic progenitor cells. Furthermore, the instant invention describes methods of using the immortalized neonatal human hepatocytes in cellular therapies, toxicological studies, pharmacokinetic studies, metabolic studies, therapeutic gene delivery and for the production of fully differentiated hepatocytes.
    Type: Application
    Filed: July 14, 2008
    Publication date: June 18, 2009
    Applicant: American Type Culture Collection
    Inventors: Jaya Gaddipati, Judith Kantor, Yvonne A. Reid
  • Method for detecting the presence of mammalian organisms using specific cytochrome c oxidase I (COI) and/or cytochrome b subsequences by a PCR based assay
    Publication number: 20080113349
    Abstract: The present invention relates to a PCR (polymerase chain reaction) based assay that is useful for detecting, identifying, quantitating and analysis of a target nucleic acid (target nucleic acid hereinafter) in a sample. More specifically, the present invention relates to a PCR based assay that can improve accuracy in detecting, identifying, and quantitating contamination in mammalian cell lines using a PCR-based assay of nucleic acid oligonucleotides (oligoprobes) having a sequence expected to be complementary to a target nucleic acid sequence in a sample. More specifically, the sample may contain either cells or nucleic acid isolated from a cell line. The present invention also relates to a detection kit using the PCR-based assay.
    Type: Application
    Filed: November 3, 2006
    Publication date: May 15, 2008
    Inventors: Pranvera Ikonomi, Jason Cooper, Greg Sykes, Yvonne Reid