MUMBAI, India, June 30 -- Intellectual Property India has published a patent application (202641076214 A) filed by Indian Institute Of Technology Hyderabad on June 19, 2026, for A Microfluidic Device For Modelling Paracrine Interactions And Method Thereof.
Inventors include Harikrishnan Narayanan Unni; and Navyasri Narmeta.
The application for the patent was published on June 26, 2026, under issue no. 26/2026.
Abstract: The present invention relates to a three-channel, single-layer microfluidic device that simulates interactions between stromal fibroblasts and lung tumour cells on a chip. The device comprises of two narrower top and bottom microchannels, supplied from a common inlet and terminating in dead ends, flank a central wide microchannel with one inlet and one outlet. The device also has multiple narrow hourglass-shaped microchannels that run the length of the three channels, connecting them and allowing limited fluidic exchange between the center channel and the side channels. The device provided is a simple, realistic lung tumour–stroma models on a chip, offering a useful method for investigating how fibroblasts affect lung carcinoma cells via soluble substances in a regulated microfluidic environment.
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