US Patent Issued to The University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill on July 14 for "Formation of arrays of planar intestinal crypts possessing a stem/proliferative cell compartment and differentiated cell zone" (Washington, North Carolina Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., July 14 -- United States Patent no. 12,680,062, issued on July 14, was assigned to The University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill (Chapel Hill, N.C.).

"Formation of arrays of planar intestinal crypts possessing a stem/proliferative cell compartment and differentiated cell zone" was invented by Nancy L. Allbritton (Seattle), Yuli Wang (Lynnwood, Wash.) and Raehyun Kim (Chapel Hill, N.C.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A method for producing tissue constructs comprising two or more distinct regions, each of which comprises a different cell population or lineage is described. The method involves providing a support substrate or substrate assembly comprising two or more physicall...