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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Aug. 12, 2008
Filed:
Jan. 13, 2006
Rahul Singhvi, Chalfont, PA (US);
Amit Kumar, Mukilteo, WA (US);
George M. Whitesides, Newton, MA (US);
Donald E. Ingber, Boston, MA (US);
Gabriel P. Lopez, Albuquerque, NM (US);
Daniel I. C. Wang, Cambridge, MA (US);
Gregory Stephanopoulos, Winchester, MA (US);
Rahul Singhvi, Chalfont, PA (US);
Amit Kumar, Mukilteo, WA (US);
George M. Whitesides, Newton, MA (US);
Donald E. Ingber, Boston, MA (US);
Gabriel P. Lopez, Albuquerque, NM (US);
Daniel I. C. Wang, Cambridge, MA (US);
Gregory Stephanopoulos, Winchester, MA (US);
President and Fellows of Harvard College, Cambridge, MA (US);
Children's Medical Center Corporation, Boston, MA (US);
Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Cambridge, MA (US);
Abstract
The invention provides a device for adhering cells in a specific and predetermined position, and associated methods. The device includes a plate defining a surface and a plurality of cytophilic islands that adhere cells, isolated by cytophobic regions to which cells do not adhere, contiguous with the cytophilic islands. The islands or the regions or both may be formed of a self-assembled monolayer (SAM).