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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Nov. 29, 2016
Filed:
Nov. 22, 2013
Applicant:
The Trustees of Columbia University IN the City of New York, 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:
Int. Cl.
CPC ...
C12N 5/00 (2006.01); C12N 5/02 (2006.01); C12M 1/36 (2006.01); C12N 5/077 (2010.01);
U.S. Cl.
CPC ...
C12M 41/48 (2013.01); C12N 5/0655 (2013.01); C12N 2533/76 (2013.01);
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.