President and Fellows of Harvard College;Massachusetts Institute of Technology;Children's Medical Center Corporation
发明人:
Charles M. Lieber,Jia Liu,Bozhi Tian,Tal Dvir,Robert S. Langer,Daniel S. Kohane
申请号：
US15216068
公开号：
US20170072109A1
申请日:
2016.07.21
申请国别(地区):
US
年份:
2017
代理人:
摘要：
The present invention generally relates to nanoscale wires and tissue engineering. In various embodiments, cell scaffolds for growing cells or tissues can be formed that include nanoscale wires that can be connected to electronic circuits extending externally of the cell scaffold. The nanoscale wires may form an integral part of cells or tissues grown from the cell scaffold, and can even be determined or controlled, e.g., using various electronic circuits. This approach allows for the creation of fundamentally new types of functionalized cells and tissues, due to the high degree of electronic control offered by the nanoscale wires and electronic circuits. Accordingly, such cell scaffolds can be used to grow cells or tissues which can be determined and/or controlled at very high resolutions, due to the presence of the nanoscale wires, and such cell scaffolds will find use in a wide variety of novel applications, including applications in tissue engineering, prosthetics, pacemakers, implants, or the like.
