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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Sep. 26, 2017
Filed:
Jul. 11, 2014
Brown University, Providence, RI (US);
Rhode Island Hospital, Providence, RI (US);
Jeffrey R. Morgan, Providence, RI (US);
Andrew Blakely, Providence, RI (US);
John Murphy, Providence, RI (US);
Anubhav Tripathi, Providence, RI (US);
William Patterson, Providence, RI (US);
Brown University, Providence, RI (US);
Rhode Island Hospital, Providence, RI (US);
Abstract
A device for assembling aggregations of adherent cells includes a gripper moveable within an assembly vessel that fixes aggregations of adherent cells at a membrane of the gripper and, by movement of the gripper, assembles aggregations of cells on a separate membrane within the vessel, thereby creating a three-dimensional assembly of aggregations of cells that fuse and can be employed in surgical procedures as a unitary tissue of adherent cells. The aggregations of cells, as assembled, can assume three-dimensional configurations distinct from any one of the component aggregations of cells assembled.