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Double-network versatile hydrogel with antibacterial and drug seque...
- Patent number 12,324,769
- Issue date Jun 10, 2025
- EYE INSTITUTE OF SHANDONG FIRST MEDICAL UNIVERSITY
- Hengrui Zhang
- A61 - MEDICAL OR VETERINARY SCIENCE HYGIENE
Information Patent Grant
Perforated tissue graft
- Patent number 12,324,869
- Issue date Jun 10, 2025
- TEI Biosciences, Inc.
- Kevin Cornwell
- A61 - MEDICAL OR VETERINARY SCIENCE HYGIENE
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Automated system and methods for tissue demineralization
- Patent number 12,318,507
- Issue date Jun 3, 2025
- Allosource
- Aidan Griffin
- B01 - PHYSICAL OR CHEMICAL PROCESSES OR APPARATUS IN GENERAL
Information Patent Grant
Method for implanting a cardiovascular valve
- Patent number 12,318,291
- Issue date Jun 3, 2025
- Edwards Lifesciences Corporation
- Jose Luis Navia
- Y10 - TECHNICAL SUBJECTS COVERED BY FORMER USPC
Information Patent Grant
Method for manufacturing ring-shaped bone grafting substitute
- Patent number 12,318,506
- Issue date Jun 3, 2025
- PURGO BIOLOGICS INC.
- Ho Chang Kang
- A61 - MEDICAL OR VETERINARY SCIENCE HYGIENE
Information Patent Grant
Decellularized biomaterial from non-mammalian tissue
- Patent number 12,311,079
- Issue date May 27, 2025
- NEXTGEN BIOLOGICS, INC.
- Ryanne Early
- C12 - BIOCHEMISTRY BEER SPIRITS WINE VINEGAR MICROBIOLOGY ENZYMOLOGY MUTATION...
Information Patent Grant
Particles comprising decellularized omentum
- Patent number 12,311,075
- Issue date May 27, 2025
- Ramot At Tel-Aviv University Ltd.
- Tal Dvir
- B82 - NANO-TECHNOLOGY
Information Patent Grant
Method of making, manufacturing or producing orthopedic soft tissue
- Patent number 12,311,077
- Issue date May 27, 2025
- New York Society for the Relief of the Ruptured and Crippled, Maintaining the...
- Tony Chen
- B29 - WORKING OF PLASTICS WORKING OF SUBSTANCES IN A PLASTIC STATE, IN GENERAL
Information Patent Grant
Anti-thrombotic and endothelialization-enhanced bioprosthetic valve...
- Patent number 12,303,616
- Issue date May 20, 2025
- Sichuan University
- Li Yang
- A61 - MEDICAL OR VETERINARY SCIENCE HYGIENE
Information Patent Grant
Methods and materials for using fibrin supports for retinal pigment...
- Patent number 12,303,617
- Issue date May 20, 2025
- Mayo Foundation for Medical Education and Research
- Alan D. Marmorstein
- A61 - MEDICAL OR VETERINARY SCIENCE HYGIENE
Information Patent Grant
Agaroid structures and related methods of use and manufacture
- Patent number 12,297,298
- Issue date May 13, 2025
- ADVANCED AESTHETIC TECHNOLOGIES, INC.
- Richard Provonchee
- C08 - ORGANIC MACROMOLECULAR COMPOUNDS THEIR PREPARATION OR CHEMICAL WORKING-...
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Therapeutic putties containing additives including processed human...
- Patent number 12,296,068
- Issue date May 13, 2025
- Abyrx, Inc.
- Richard Kronenthal
- C08 - ORGANIC MACROMOLECULAR COMPOUNDS THEIR PREPARATION OR CHEMICAL WORKING-...
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Non-cultured, partially digested, cryopreserved cartilage product
- Patent number 12,268,797
- Issue date Apr 8, 2025
- Osiris Therapeutics, Inc.
- Dana Sue Yoo
- A61 - MEDICAL OR VETERINARY SCIENCE HYGIENE
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Amnion tissue grafts and methods of preparing and using same
- Patent number 12,263,276
- Issue date Apr 1, 2025
- AXOGEN CORPORATION
- Curt Deister
- A01 - AGRICULTURE FORESTRY ANIMAL HUSBANDRY HUNTING TRAPPING FISHING
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Hybrid scaffold suitable for regenerating animal tissues and proces...
- Patent number 12,257,366
- Issue date Mar 25, 2025
- DIALYBRID S.R.L.
- Francesco Giovanni Greco
- D01 - NATURAL OR ARTIFICIAL THREADS OR FIBRES SPINNING
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Preparation method and application of decellularized extracellular...
- Patent number 12,257,364
- Issue date Mar 25, 2025
- Nankai University
- Meifeng Zhu
- A61 - MEDICAL OR VETERINARY SCIENCE HYGIENE
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Preparation method of 4D chitosan-based thermosensitive hydrogel
- Patent number 12,252,595
- Issue date Mar 18, 2025
- QINGDAO UNIVERSITY
- Wenhua Xu
- B29 - WORKING OF PLASTICS WORKING OF SUBSTANCES IN A PLASTIC STATE, IN GENERAL
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Non-resorbable bone allografts and method for making same
- Patent number 12,220,499
- Issue date Feb 11, 2025
- Miron Research and Development in Dentistry, LLC
- Richard John Miron
- A61 - MEDICAL OR VETERINARY SCIENCE HYGIENE
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Detergent-free decellularized extracellular matrix preparation meth...
- Patent number 12,208,179
- Issue date Jan 28, 2025
- Polbionica Sp. z o. o.
- Michal Wszola
- B33 - ADDITIVE MANUFACTURING TECHNOLOGY
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Method for sterilizing heart valves
- Patent number 12,201,734
- Issue date Jan 21, 2025
- Edwards Lifesciences Corporation
- Steven M. Claessens
- A61 - MEDICAL OR VETERINARY SCIENCE HYGIENE
Information Patent Grant
Vascular extracellular matrix hydrogel
- Patent number 12,201,745
- Issue date Jan 21, 2025
- University of Pittsburgh of the Commonwealth System of Higher Education
- Stephen F. Badylak
- C12 - BIOCHEMISTRY BEER SPIRITS WINE VINEGAR MICROBIOLOGY ENZYMOLOGY MUTATION...
Information Patent Grant
Extrudable photocrosslinkable hydrogel and method for its preparation
- Patent number 12,194,193
- Issue date Jan 14, 2025
- UNIVERSIDAD DE LOS ANDES
- Carolina Muñoz Camargo
- A61 - MEDICAL OR VETERINARY SCIENCE HYGIENE
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Soft tissue protein compositions, methods of making, and uses thereof
- Patent number 12,194,194
- Issue date Jan 14, 2025
- ADVANCED BIOLOGICS, LLC
- Amit Prakash Govil
- A61 - MEDICAL OR VETERINARY SCIENCE HYGIENE
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Dermal fillers and applications thereof
- Patent number 12,186,449
- Issue date Jan 7, 2025
- CollPlant Ltd.
- Oded Shoseyov
- C12 - BIOCHEMISTRY BEER SPIRITS WINE VINEGAR MICROBIOLOGY ENZYMOLOGY MUTATION...
Information Patent Grant
Implants having a drug load of an oxysterol and methods of use
- Patent number 12,171,909
- Issue date Dec 24, 2024
- Warsaw Orthopedic, Inc.
- Benjamin T. Reves
- A61 - MEDICAL OR VETERINARY SCIENCE HYGIENE
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Composition for regeneration of human fibrous cartilage or elastic...
- Patent number 12,168,082
- Issue date Dec 17, 2024
- Medicrinia, Co., Ltd.
- Seung Uk An
- A61 - MEDICAL OR VETERINARY SCIENCE HYGIENE
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Matrix bound nanovesicles and their use
- Patent number 12,161,778
- Issue date Dec 10, 2024
- University of Pittsburgh of the Commonwealth System of Higher Education
- Stephen Francis Badylak
- C12 - BIOCHEMISTRY BEER SPIRITS WINE VINEGAR MICROBIOLOGY ENZYMOLOGY MUTATION...
Information Patent Grant
Flowable birth tissue composition and related methods
- Patent number 12,161,677
- Issue date Dec 10, 2024
- CONVATEC, INC
- Kurt Klitzke
- C12 - BIOCHEMISTRY BEER SPIRITS WINE VINEGAR MICROBIOLOGY ENZYMOLOGY MUTATION...
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Bone grafts including osteogenic stem cells, and methods relating t...
- Patent number 12,161,780
- Issue date Dec 10, 2024
- Globus Medical, Inc.
- Archana Bhat
- C12 - BIOCHEMISTRY BEER SPIRITS WINE VINEGAR MICROBIOLOGY ENZYMOLOGY MUTATION...
Information Patent Grant
Flowable birth tissue composition and related methods
- Patent number 12,144,830
- Issue date Nov 19, 2024
- CONVATEC, INC
- Kurt Klitzke
- C12 - BIOCHEMISTRY BEER SPIRITS WINE VINEGAR MICROBIOLOGY ENZYMOLOGY MUTATION...

Patents Applicationslast 30 patents

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PROCESS FOR PREPARING A DRIED, SWELLABLE, SPONGY BIOLOGICAL MATERIA...
- Publication number 20250186658
- Publication date Jun 12, 2025
- BIOTRONIK AG
- Alexander Rzany
- A61 - MEDICAL OR VETERINARY SCIENCE HYGIENE
Information Patent Application
Methods of Determining the Suitability of Cultured Thymus Tissue fo...
- Publication number 20250186505
- Publication date Jun 12, 2025
- Enzyvant Therapeutics GmbH
- Mary Louise Markert
- C12 - BIOCHEMISTRY BEER SPIRITS WINE VINEGAR MICROBIOLOGY ENZYMOLOGY MUTATION...
Information Patent Application
METHODS FOR TISSUE DECELLULARIZATION
- Publication number 20250170304
- Publication date May 29, 2025
- UCL Business LTD
- Paola Bonfanti
- C12 - BIOCHEMISTRY BEER SPIRITS WINE VINEGAR MICROBIOLOGY ENZYMOLOGY MUTATION...
Information Patent Application
SYSTEM AND METHOD FOR INDUCING DEGRADATION IN ACOUSTICALLY RESPONSI...
- Publication number 20250170301
- Publication date May 29, 2025
- Carnegie Mellon University
- Rosalyn ABBOTT-BEAUREGARD
- D01 - NATURAL OR ARTIFICIAL THREADS OR FIBRES SPINNING
Information Patent Application
DOUBLE-NETWORK VERSATILE HYDROGEL WITH ANTIBACTERIAL AND DRUG SEQUE...
- Publication number 20250169985
- Publication date May 29, 2025
- Eye Institute of Shandong First Medical University
- Hengrui ZHANG
- A61 - MEDICAL OR VETERINARY SCIENCE HYGIENE
Information Patent Application
METHOD FOR PREPARING BIOLOGICAL VALVE MATERIAL BY MEANS OF DOUBLE-B...
- Publication number 20250152780
- Publication date May 15, 2025
- SICHUAN UNIVERISTY
- Yunbing Wang
- A61 - MEDICAL OR VETERINARY SCIENCE HYGIENE
Information Patent Application
NERVE GRAFTS AND METHODS OF PREPARATION THEREOF
- Publication number 20250152778
- Publication date May 15, 2025
- AxoGen Corporation
- Jennifer FALERIS
- A61 - MEDICAL OR VETERINARY SCIENCE HYGIENE
Information Patent Application
NERVE GRAFTS AND METHODS OF PREPARATION THEREOF
- Publication number 20250152779
- Publication date May 15, 2025
- AxoGen Corporation
- Jennifer FALERIS
- A61 - MEDICAL OR VETERINARY SCIENCE HYGIENE
Information Patent Application
DECELLULARIZED MUSCLE MATRICES AND METHODS FOR MAKING AND USING SAME
- Publication number 20250152777
- Publication date May 15, 2025
- Musculoskeletal Transplant Foundation
- Emily Imming
- A61 - MEDICAL OR VETERINARY SCIENCE HYGIENE
Information Patent Application
REGENERATIVE TISSUE REPAIR PRODUCT DERIVED FROM DECELLULARIZED ANIM...
- Publication number 20250135068
- Publication date May 1, 2025
- RTT MEDICAL, INC.
- Rodney W. Bosley
- A61 - MEDICAL OR VETERINARY SCIENCE HYGIENE
Information Patent Application
TISSUE MATRIX MATERIALS AND ENZYMATIC ADHESIVES
- Publication number 20250127862
- Publication date Apr 24, 2025
- LifeCell Corporation
- Eric Stec
- C12 - BIOCHEMISTRY BEER SPIRITS WINE VINEGAR MICROBIOLOGY ENZYMOLOGY MUTATION...
Information Patent Application
DERMAL FILLERS AND APPLICATIONS THEREOF
- Publication number 20250127958
- Publication date Apr 24, 2025
- CollPlant Ltd..
- Oded SHOSEYOV
- C12 - BIOCHEMISTRY BEER SPIRITS WINE VINEGAR MICROBIOLOGY ENZYMOLOGY MUTATION...
Information Patent Application
SYSTEMS, APPARATUSES, KITS, AND METHODS FOR MODIFICATION OF TISSUE...
- Publication number 20250121118
- Publication date Apr 17, 2025
- DurVena Inc.
- Fernando Buarque
- A61 - MEDICAL OR VETERINARY SCIENCE HYGIENE
Information Patent Application
BONE GRAFT SUBSTITUTES
- Publication number 20250099651
- Publication date Mar 27, 2025
- ZOAN NUÁIL TEORANTA
- Martin JOHNSON
- A61 - MEDICAL OR VETERINARY SCIENCE HYGIENE
Information Patent Application
Vascular Extracellular Matrix Hydrogel
- Publication number 20250099650
- Publication date Mar 27, 2025
- University of Pittsburgh of the Commonwealth System of Higher Education
- Stephen F. Badylak
- C12 - BIOCHEMISTRY BEER SPIRITS WINE VINEGAR MICROBIOLOGY ENZYMOLOGY MUTATION...
Information Patent Application
Bone Grafts Including Osteogenic Stem Cells and Methods Relating to...
- Publication number 20250099652
- Publication date Mar 27, 2025
- Globus Medical, Inc
- Archana Bhat
- C12 - BIOCHEMISTRY BEER SPIRITS WINE VINEGAR MICROBIOLOGY ENZYMOLOGY MUTATION...
Information Patent Application
FLOWABLE BIRTH TISSUE COMPOSITION AND RELATED METHODS
- Publication number 20250099509
- Publication date Mar 27, 2025
- Convatec, Inc
- Kurt KLITZKE
- C12 - BIOCHEMISTRY BEER SPIRITS WINE VINEGAR MICROBIOLOGY ENZYMOLOGY MUTATION...
Information Patent Application
BIOFILM MATERIAL, METHOD FOR PREPARING SAME, USE THEREOF, AND ARTIF...
- Publication number 20250090309
- Publication date Mar 20, 2025
- Venus Medtech (Hangzhou) Inc.
- Linhe JIN
- A61 - MEDICAL OR VETERINARY SCIENCE HYGIENE
Information Patent Application
SOFT TISSUE PROTEIN COMPOSITIONS, METHODS OF MAKING, AND USES THEREOF
- Publication number 20250090724
- Publication date Mar 20, 2025
- Advanced Biologics, LLC
- Amit Prakash Govil
- A61 - MEDICAL OR VETERINARY SCIENCE HYGIENE
Information Patent Application
SYSTEMS AND METHODS OF ENHANCEMENTS OF THERAPEUTIC PROPERTIES OF A...
- Publication number 20250073374
- Publication date Mar 6, 2025
- Royal Biologics
- Darin EWER
- A61 - MEDICAL OR VETERINARY SCIENCE HYGIENE
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THERAPEUTIC PUTTIES CONTAINING ADDITIVES INCLUDING PROCESSED HUMAN...
- Publication number 20250073375
- Publication date Mar 6, 2025
- Abyrx, Inc.
- Richard L. KRONENTHAL
- C08 - ORGANIC MACROMOLECULAR COMPOUNDS THEIR PREPARATION OR CHEMICAL WORKING-...
Information Patent Application
Fractionating Extracellular Matrix to Modulate Bioactivity and the...
- Publication number 20250065017
- Publication date Feb 27, 2025
- University of Pittsburgh of the Commonwealth System of Higher Education
- Stephen F. Badylak
- A61 - MEDICAL OR VETERINARY SCIENCE HYGIENE
Information Patent Application
ADIPOSE TISSUE PRODUCTS AND METHODS OF PRODUCTION
- Publication number 20250065018
- Publication date Feb 27, 2025
- LifeCell Corporation
- Hui Xu
- A61 - MEDICAL OR VETERINARY SCIENCE HYGIENE
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EXTRACELLULAR MATRIX-BASED HYBRID INK FOR 3D PRINTING AND METHOD FO...
- Publication number 20250058017
- Publication date Feb 20, 2025
- POSTECH RESEARCH AND BUSINESS DEVELOPMENT FOUNDATION
- Jin Ah JANG
- A61 - MEDICAL OR VETERINARY SCIENCE HYGIENE
Information Patent Application
PREPARATION METHOD FOR BIOLOGICAL MEMBRANE, AND PRODUCT AND APPLICA...
- Publication number 20250041484
- Publication date Feb 6, 2025
- DB WUDEREGEN BIOMEDICAL TECHNOLOGIES (JIANG SU) CO., LTD
- Qun DONG
- A61 - MEDICAL OR VETERINARY SCIENCE HYGIENE
Information Patent Application
MULTI-STAGE DECELLULARIZED TISSUE SUPPLEMENT, AND PREPARATION METHO...
- Publication number 20250041482
- Publication date Feb 6, 2025
- T & R BIOFAB CO., LTD.
- Hyun Jung KIM
- A61 - MEDICAL OR VETERINARY SCIENCE HYGIENE
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GENETICALLY MODIFIED BIOPROSTHETIC HEART VALVE AND PRODUCTION METHO...
- Publication number 20250041483
- Publication date Feb 6, 2025
- KOC UNIVERSITESI
- Kerem PEKKAN
- C12 - BIOCHEMISTRY BEER SPIRITS WINE VINEGAR MICROBIOLOGY ENZYMOLOGY MUTATION...
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TISSUE MATRIX DECELLULARIZED IN MULTIPLE STAGES, AND PREPARATION ME...
- Publication number 20250041481
- Publication date Feb 6, 2025
- T & R BIOFAB CO., LTD.
- Hyun Jung KIM
- A61 - MEDICAL OR VETERINARY SCIENCE HYGIENE
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METHOD OF PROVIDING AN IMPLANTABLE HYDROGEL MATERIAL AND AN IMPLANT...
- Publication number 20250041486
- Publication date Feb 6, 2025
- Mehrdad Rafat
- Mehrdad Rafat
- A61 - MEDICAL OR VETERINARY SCIENCE HYGIENE
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DECELLULARIZED MATRIX MATERIAL AND PREPARATION METHOD THEREFOR AND...
- Publication number 20250032669
- Publication date Jan 30, 2025
- Jiangsu Brightness Medical Devices Co., Ltd
- Jintong ZHANG
- A61 - MEDICAL OR VETERINARY SCIENCE HYGIENE

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Patents Grantslast 30 patents

Double-network versatile hydrogel with antibacterial and drug seque...

Perforated tissue graft

Automated system and methods for tissue demineralization

Method for implanting a cardiovascular valve

Method for manufacturing ring-shaped bone grafting substitute

Decellularized biomaterial from non-mammalian tissue

Particles comprising decellularized omentum

Method of making, manufacturing or producing orthopedic soft tissue

Anti-thrombotic and endothelialization-enhanced bioprosthetic valve...

Methods and materials for using fibrin supports for retinal pigment...

Agaroid structures and related methods of use and manufacture

Therapeutic putties containing additives including processed human...

Non-cultured, partially digested, cryopreserved cartilage product

Amnion tissue grafts and methods of preparing and using same

Hybrid scaffold suitable for regenerating animal tissues and proces...

Preparation method and application of decellularized extracellular...

Preparation method of 4D chitosan-based thermosensitive hydrogel

Non-resorbable bone allografts and method for making same

Detergent-free decellularized extracellular matrix preparation meth...

Method for sterilizing heart valves

Vascular extracellular matrix hydrogel

Extrudable photocrosslinkable hydrogel and method for its preparation

Soft tissue protein compositions, methods of making, and uses thereof

Dermal fillers and applications thereof

Implants having a drug load of an oxysterol and methods of use

Composition for regeneration of human fibrous cartilage or elastic...

Matrix bound nanovesicles and their use

Flowable birth tissue composition and related methods

Bone grafts including osteogenic stem cells, and methods relating t...

Flowable birth tissue composition and related methods

Patents Applicationslast 30 patents

PROCESS FOR PREPARING A DRIED, SWELLABLE, SPONGY BIOLOGICAL MATERIA...

Methods of Determining the Suitability of Cultured Thymus Tissue fo...

METHODS FOR TISSUE DECELLULARIZATION

SYSTEM AND METHOD FOR INDUCING DEGRADATION IN ACOUSTICALLY RESPONSI...

DOUBLE-NETWORK VERSATILE HYDROGEL WITH ANTIBACTERIAL AND DRUG SEQUE...

METHOD FOR PREPARING BIOLOGICAL VALVE MATERIAL BY MEANS OF DOUBLE-B...

NERVE GRAFTS AND METHODS OF PREPARATION THEREOF

NERVE GRAFTS AND METHODS OF PREPARATION THEREOF

DECELLULARIZED MUSCLE MATRICES AND METHODS FOR MAKING AND USING SAME

REGENERATIVE TISSUE REPAIR PRODUCT DERIVED FROM DECELLULARIZED ANIM...

TISSUE MATRIX MATERIALS AND ENZYMATIC ADHESIVES

DERMAL FILLERS AND APPLICATIONS THEREOF

SYSTEMS, APPARATUSES, KITS, AND METHODS FOR MODIFICATION OF TISSUE...

BONE GRAFT SUBSTITUTES

Vascular Extracellular Matrix Hydrogel

Bone Grafts Including Osteogenic Stem Cells and Methods Relating to...

FLOWABLE BIRTH TISSUE COMPOSITION AND RELATED METHODS

BIOFILM MATERIAL, METHOD FOR PREPARING SAME, USE THEREOF, AND ARTIF...

SOFT TISSUE PROTEIN COMPOSITIONS, METHODS OF MAKING, AND USES THEREOF

SYSTEMS AND METHODS OF ENHANCEMENTS OF THERAPEUTIC PROPERTIES OF A...

THERAPEUTIC PUTTIES CONTAINING ADDITIVES INCLUDING PROCESSED HUMAN...

Fractionating Extracellular Matrix to Modulate Bioactivity and the...

ADIPOSE TISSUE PRODUCTS AND METHODS OF PRODUCTION

EXTRACELLULAR MATRIX-BASED HYBRID INK FOR 3D PRINTING AND METHOD FO...

PREPARATION METHOD FOR BIOLOGICAL MEMBRANE, AND PRODUCT AND APPLICA...

MULTI-STAGE DECELLULARIZED TISSUE SUPPLEMENT, AND PREPARATION METHO...

GENETICALLY MODIFIED BIOPROSTHETIC HEART VALVE AND PRODUCTION METHO...

TISSUE MATRIX DECELLULARIZED IN MULTIPLE STAGES, AND PREPARATION ME...

METHOD OF PROVIDING AN IMPLANTABLE HYDROGEL MATERIAL AND AN IMPLANT...

DECELLULARIZED MATRIX MATERIAL AND PREPARATION METHOD THEREFOR AND...