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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Jul. 14, 2026
Filed:
Aug. 12, 2021
Trustees of Tufts College, Medford, MA (US);
Trustees of Tufts College, Medford, MA (US);
Abstract
The present disclosure relates to cultured tissue, methods for production of the cultured tissue, and a bioreactor system for production of the cultured tissue. In some embodiments, the production of the cultured tissue may involve, at a first bioreactor, feeding a fiber scaffold into a chamber containing culture media, seeding the chamber with precursor cells, and allowing the precursor cells to proliferate and differentiate on a surface of the fiber scaffold. At downstream bioreactors, the production of the cultured tissue may further involve twisting a plurality of the cell-laden fibers to provide a cell-laden yarn, and weaving or knitting the cell-laden yarn into a three-dimensional (3D) structure. In some embodiments, the cultured tissue may be whole muscle cultured meat composed of muscle cell-laden fibers and fat cell-laden fibers. The whole muscle cultured meat may have a structural organization and hierarchy that mimics natural skeletal muscle tissue.