US Patent Issued to Duke University on May 20 for "Apparatuses for purification of gel droplets supporting biological tissue" (North Carolina Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 16 -- United States Patent no. 12,303,806, issued on May 20, was assigned to Duke University (Durham, N.C.).

"Apparatuses for purification of gel droplets supporting biological tissue" was invented by Zhaohui Wang (Durham, N.C.) and Xiling Shen (Durham, N.C.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Method and apparatuses for forming gel droplets including biological tissue (e.g., cells), and in particular, methods and apparatuses for removing oil from the gel droplets comprising dissociated cells (including micro-organospheres) are described herein. Although it is beneficial to use oil in the formation of these gel droplets, and particularly micro-organospheres, oil may inhibit gr...