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US 9,849,150 B2Granted
Use of photosynthetic scaffolds in tissue engineering
AssigneeSymbiox, Inc.
InventorsJose-Tomas Egana-Erazo, Hans-Gunther Machens, Ursula Hopfner, Joerg Nickelsen
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Abstract
The present invention is concerned with a photosynthetic scaffold that delivers oxygen and its uses for tissue engineering and the treatment of ischemia.
Claims3
A photosynthetic scaffold for growth of tissue, comprising:
- photosynthetically active cells;
- and a scaffold on which the photosynthetically active cells proliferated wherein the cells are configured for direct contact with the tissue, wherein the scaffold is a polymer network comprised of a biodegradable material that is synthetic, natural or a mixture of both.
Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.