ChromaDex is a dietary supplement and

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company based in

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founded in 1999 that is publicly traded on the NASDAQ. In 2011, ChromaDex licensed patents from

Dartmouth College Dartmouth College (; ) is a private research university in Hanover, New Hampshire. Established in 1769 by Eleazar Wheelock, it is one of the nine colonial colleges chartered before the American Revolution. Although founded to educate Native ...

Cornell University Cornell University is a private statutory land-grant research university based in Ithaca, New York. It is a member of the Ivy League. Founded in 1865 by Ezra Cornell and Andrew Dickson White, Cornell was founded with the intention to tea ...

, and

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regarding

nicotinamide riboside Nicotinamide riboside (NR, SR647) is a pyridine-nucleoside and a form of vitamin B3, functioning as a precursor to nicotinamide adenine dinucleotide or NAD+. Chemistry While the molecular weight of nicotinamide riboside is 255.25 g/mol, that o ...

, which it markets and sells as an ingredient under the brand name Niagen and sells directly to consumers as Tru Niagen. ChromaDex licensed patents from the University of Mississippi and the

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to commercially develop

pterostilbene Pterostilbene () (trans-3,5-dimethoxy-4-hydroxystilbene) is a stilbenoid chemically related to resveratrol. In plants, it serves a defensive phytoalexin role. Natural occurrence Pterostilbene is found in almonds, various ''Vaccinium'' berries ( ...

and sell the compound under the brand name pTeroPure. ChromaDex no longer sells pTeroPure.

Elysium Health Elysium Health is an American manufacturer of dietary supplements based in New York City. History Elysium Health was founded in 2014 by biologist and director of the Glenn Center for Biology of Aging Research at MIT Leonard Guarente Ph.D ...

bought the ingredients in its "Basis" product from ChromaDex. The two firms had an agreement under which Elysium didn't have to acknowledge ChromaDex as the source of the ingredients, but then after Elysium recruited the VP of business development from ChromaDex and stopped paying ChromaDex, ChromaDex sued Elysium and the information became public.

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