Recent developments in bioprinting allow researchers to produce materials that can contain living cells within them
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Biofabrication
Mussels needed to improve strength of graphene fibers
Researchers have used a mussel-inspired polymer to produce graphene-based liquid crystalline fibers with impressive mechanical and electrical properties
Prints with programmable rigidity control present medical applications
Researchers are using 3D printing as a means of producing artificial blood vessels with programmable rigidity control
Print me an organ
As innovations in 3D bioprinting begin to impact the commercial and clinical worlds, Margaret Harris explains how these advances could prove significant
Pre-set bioprinting technique produces complex tissues
Novel bioprinting technique enables biofabrication of multi-cellular and multi-material tissue-like structures using a single printing head
Magnetic levitation promises to speed up tissue fabrication
Scaffold-, label-, nozzle-free technology offers rapid fabrication of complex human tissue and organs, and could even be used in space
Cellular building blocks create life-like constructs
New technique creates the branched capillary-like networks needed for 3D tissue constructs to grow and survive
Novel bioink scales up stem cell bioprinting
A new bioink for cell encapsulation and 3D bioprinting allows large-scale growth of human pluripotent stem cells
Live cells survive in bioprinted bone
3D plotting technique shows promise for fabricating patient-specific tissue constructs for repairing bone defects