Rudolf Jaenisch, a Massachusetts Institute of Technology scientist, will be granted a U.S. patent for conceiving a way to turn cells from mammalsâ?? bodies into stem cells, a discovery also claimed by two other scientists.
The patent was announced by Fate Therapeutics Inc., a closely held San Diego company that has an exclusive license from MIT and Jaenisch, one of the companyâ??s founders. Shinya Yamanaka, a researcher at Kyoto University in Japan, â??was the first one to do it, we had the idea first,â? Jaenisch said in an interview yesterday. James Thomson of the University of Wisconsin also developed a method for developing stem cells.