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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Sep. 07, 2021
Filed:
May. 17, 2018
Trustees of Tufts College, Medford, MA (US);
Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Cambridge, MA (US);
David L. Kaplan, Concord, MA (US);
Rina Sears, Pine Meadow, CT (US);
Gordana Vunjak-Novakovic, New York, NY (US);
Lorenz Meinel, Niestetal, DE;
Trustees of Tufts College, Medford, MA (US);
Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Cambridge, MA (US);
Abstract
The present invention provides processes for producing porous silk fibroin scaffold material. The porous silk fibroin scaffold can be used for tissue engineering. The porosity of the silk fibroin scaffolds described herein can be adjusted as to mimic the gradient of densities found in natural tissue. Accordingly, methods for engineering of 3-dimensional tissue, e.g. bone and cartilage, using the silk fibroin scaffold material are also provided.