Smith + Nephew

Mark Howard

Mark F Smith

Graham Smith

Stephen John Curran

Helene Anne Lecomte

Nicholas Charlton Fry

Anthony C Dagger

Brian Mark Thomson

Sarah Freestone

Rebecca Crallan

Roy Trayhern

David Morsley

Elisabeth Hutson

Elizabeth Finnie

Brian Thomson

Roy Trayhearn

Mark Smith

The present disclosure relates to a tissue collection apparatus including a housing defining an inlet and an outlet and a tissue scaffold suitable for disposal within the housing, the tissue scaffold configured to be loaded with the tissue under the application of an aspiration force applied through the tissue collection apparatus.

Tissue harvesting

The present disclosure relates to a tissue collection apparatus. The tissue collection apparatus comprises a housing defining an inlet and an outlet, a first filter disposed within the housing, a second filter disposed within the housing, the second filter configured to isolate tissue particles of a desired size that pass through the first filter under the application of an aspiration force applied through the housing. A method of harvesting tissue is also disclosed.

The present invention relates to scaffolds which can be used as medical devices for guided tissue regeneration and repair, in particular the invention is directed to a scaffold comprising fibers having a mean fiber diameter of between from about 1.2 to 4.0 microns, wherein the fibers comprise a glycolide. The invention further relates to the use of the scaffolds for the selective capture of cell populations for a cell source material.

Scaffold

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