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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Aug. 09, 2011
Filed:
Jul. 01, 2008
Rahul Singhvi, Potomac, MD (US);
Amit Kumar, San Jose, CA (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, Potomac, MD (US);
Amit Kumar, San Jose, CA (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);
Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Cambridge, MA (US);
Children's Medical Center Corporation, Boston, 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).