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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Jan. 01, 2013
Filed:
Nov. 24, 2006
Applicants:
Umber Cheema, Middlesex, GB;
Cher-bing Chuo, Birmingham, GB;
Robert Brown, Middlesex, GB;
Inventors:
Assignee:
ULC Business PLC, London, GB;
Attorney:
Primary Examiner:
Int. Cl.
CPC ...
C12N 5/07 (2010.01);
U.S. Cl.
CPC ...
Abstract
This invention relates to methods for preparing biomaterials by applying multiple cycles of tensile loading to compacted collagen gels in order to fuse the collagen fibrils together within the compacted gels. This produces a biomaterial with improved material properties. Biomaterials produced by such methods may be useful, for example, as tissue equivalent implants, in the repair and/or replacement of damaged tissue in an individual.