Patent 7176023 was granted and assigned to Wisconsin Alumni Research Foundation on February, 2007 by the United States Patent and Trademark Office.
A method is described to induce primate embryonic stem cells to differentiate into a relatively homogenous population of endothelial cells. The ES derived endothelial cells have the general morphological and cell surface marker characteristics of endothelial cells. The ES derived endothelial cells also are capable of inducing and participating in blood vessel formation (or vascularization) when transplanted into tissue in vivo.