Collagen fiber scaffolding for tissue engineering

Case ID: 039

Web Published: 2/12/2013

Tissue engineering scaffolds include meshes, woven structures, non-woven structures, knitted structures, three dimensional woven structures, sponges and foams. The scaffolds are typically made of materials that are bio compatible, biodegradable materials. These materials readily break down into small segments when exposed to moist body tissue. The segments then either are absorbed by the body, or are passed by the body. More particularly, the biodegraded segments do not elicit permanent chronic foreign body reaction, and no permanent trace or residual of the segment is retained by the body. Ideally, the biodegradable tissue scaffolds degrade at approximately the same rate as the body synthesizes new tissue to repair the wound or defect.

Flexibility of soft coral fibers

A patent application was been filed with the US Patent and Trademark Office on Jan 27, 2013.

Coral Doc.

Patent Information:

Title	App Type	Country	Serial No.	Patent No.	File Date	Issued Date	Expire Date	Patent Status
Three-dimensional bioengineered scaffolding material for tissue generation derived from soft coral fibers	Utility	United States		9,011,859	1/27/2013	5/6/2015		Filed