US Patent Issued to Organovo on Feb. 10 for "Engineered intestinal tissue and uses thereof" (California Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Feb. 11 -- United States Patent no. 12,545,897, issued on Feb. 10, was assigned to Organovo Inc. (San Diego).

"Engineered intestinal tissue and uses thereof" was invented by Kelsey Nicole Retting (San Diego), Deborah Lynn Greene Nguyen (San Diego) and Lauran Madden (San Diego).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Disclosed are methods of assessing the ability of a candidate therapeutic agent to reverse, reduce or prevent intestinal injury by a potential toxic agent using a three-dimensional, engineered, bioprinted, biological intestinal tissue model. Also disclosed are methods of assessing the effect of an agent on intestinal function, the method comprising contacting the agent with...