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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Feb. 02, 2016
Filed:
Jan. 29, 2014
The Charles Stark Draper Laboratory, Inc., Cambridge, MA (US);
The Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Cambridge, MA (US);
Joseph Cuiffi, Fort Myers, FL (US);
Mark Joseph Mescher, West Newton, MA (US);
Jonathan Robert Coppeta, Windham, NH (US);
Samuel Walker Inman, Boston, MA (US);
Abigail June Spencer, Boston, MA (US);
Transon Van Nguyen, San Diego, CA (US);
Jeffrey T. Borenstein, Newton, MA (US);
The Charles Stark Draper Laboratory, Inc., Cambridge, MA (US);
The Massachusettes Institute of Technology, Cambridge, MA (US);
Abstract
The systems and methods disclosed herein are generally related to a cell culture system. More particularly, the systems and methods enable the culturing and interconnecting of a plurality of tissue types in a biomimetic environment. By culturing organ specific tissue types within a biomimetic environment and interconnecting each of the organ systems in a physiologically meaningful way, experiments can be conducted on in vitro cells that substantially mimic the responses of in vivo cell populations. In some implementations, the organ systems are fluidically connected with a constant-volume pump.