Patent ID: 7709462

Claim:
A molded gel implant comprising a biocompatible and gellable aqueous composition of polysaccharides, the composition consisting of a mixture of two polysaccharides, wherein one of the two polysaccharides is chemically gellable and the other of the two polysaccharides is thermally gellable, wherein the chemically gellable polysaccharide is a calcium alginate, wherein the thermally gellable polysaccharide is selected from the group consisting of agarose and agar, wherein the biocompatible and gellable aqueous composition contains biological tissue extracts, which are autologous, allogenic or xenogenic cells selected from the group consisting of chondrocytes, cells constituting cartilage, osteoblasts, cells constituting bone, muscle cells and fibroblasts, and wherein the molded gel implant is obtained by thermal gelling followed by chemical gelling of the biocompatible and gellable aqueous composition.