US Patent Issued to QUEEN MARY UNIVERSITY OF LONDON on April 29 for "Skin culturing apparatus and method" (British Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 9 -- United States Patent no. 12,286,609, issued on April 29, was assigned to QUEEN MARY UNIVERSITY OF LONDON (London).

"Skin culturing apparatus and method" was invented by Rosalind Francesca Hannen (London) and Jose Rafael Castrejon-Pita (London).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "The invention provides a skin culturing apparatus configured for biphasic culturing of mammalian skin and/or a mammalian skin substitute. The apparatus comprises a first chamber that is configured to provide a gaseous environment having a relative humidity below 90% and comprising less than 5% CO2, and a second chamber that is configured to provide tissue culture medium at a temperature of 33.0-37...