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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
May. 02, 2023
Filed:
Jul. 19, 2019
Nanocav, Llc, Culver City, CA (US);
Ting-Hsiang Sherry Wu, Culver City, CA (US);
Artin Mehrabi, Burbank, CA (US);
Jon Thomas Van Lew, Los Angeles, CA (US);
NANOCAV, LLC, Culver City, CA (US);
Abstract
Devices and methods are presented for delivery of various macrostructures into cells, such as depleted cells as well as methods of generating engineered cells using said devices and methods. Cells are placed on a porous membrane. A force is applied by a configurable actuator to a deformable fluid reservoir that generates an applied pressure to macrostructures in a solution, causing the macrostructures to pass through the porous membrane and triggering uptake of at least some of the macrostructures into the cells to form transfected cells. Said devices and methods may be used in a process to replace defective endogenous mtDNA with corrected mtDNA to generate cellular-based therapeutics for administration to a patient. The customizable actuator may be configured with parameters to optimize efficiency for a given cell type and material to be transfected. Machine learning techniques also may be utilized to optimize transfection parameters.