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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Dec. 31, 2013
Filed:
Aug. 31, 2010
Applicants:
Mark A. Borden, Boulder, CO (US);
Eric G. Lima, Patterson, NY (US);
Clark T. Hung, Ardsley, NY (US);
Shashank Ramesh Sirsi, New York, NY (US);
Inventors:
Mark A. Borden, Boulder, CO (US);
Eric G. Lima, Patterson, NY (US);
Clark T. Hung, Ardsley, NY (US);
Shashank Ramesh Sirsi, New York, NY (US);
Assignee:
The Trustees of Columbia University in the City of New York, New York, NY (US);
Attorneys:
Primary Examiner:
Assistant Examiner:
Int. Cl.
CPC ...
C12N 5/00 (2006.01);
U.S. Cl.
CPC ...
Abstract
A hydrogel tissue engineering scaffold having microbubbles dispersed therein is disclosed. Also, a system for cell culturing including a controller and actuator to apply dynamic deformational loading to a hydrogel is disclosed. Also disclosed are methods for producing hydrogels with microbubbles and for culturing cells using hydrogels with microbubbles.