Great infographic on bioprinting
Bioprinting is in its early days but the future looks very exciting. Using modified printer cartridges and extracted cells as the basis, bioprinting will make it possible to print full organs and other...
View ArticleOne step closer to printing human organs
If you have heard of term bioprinting than you know that scientists are already capable of creating small samples of human tissue in the lab. The big problem at this point is that before they can make...
View ArticleNew Hybrid 3D Printer Makes It Possible To Print Implantable Cartilage
The developments of bio-printing are possibly the most fascinating of all 3D printing developments. In the last few years, medical science has used 3D printers to create 3D-photografting technology and...
View ArticleCreating an artificial ear using 3D printing and living-cell gels
Scientists at the Cornell University have found a method that enables them to grow a new ear within days using a combination of 3D printing and living-cell gels. This new technique could help hundreds...
View ArticleOrganovo’s First Fully Cellular 3D Bioprinted Liver Tissue
At the 2013 Experimental Biology conference in Boston, Organovo, a company specialised in bioprinting, presented the first fully cellular 3D bioprinted liver tissue. “We have achieved excellent...
View ArticleU.S. Army Wants to Use Bioprinting to Recover Wounds
When it comes to news about wars, stories are often focussed on the mortality rate. Obviously, this is a very important part of wars and something which needs to be reported of. However, the world...
View ArticleFirst Russian Bioprinter to be Unveiled in mid-October
British and American researchers are currently doing marvelous jobs in the field of bioprinting research. Nevertheless, this technique is not one that is solely being used by Western companies and...
View Article3D Printer That Could Print Billions of Organic Compounds
Martin D Burke and his team from the University of Illinois have studied and synthesized small molecules with protein-like structures for quite some time. These molecules are in fact the basis of the...
View ArticleFast Bioprinting of Human Cartilage Implants
At ETH Zürich’s Cartilage Engineering and Regeneration laboratory they have made some notable speed advancements in 3D printing of human cartilage which should lead to implantable replacements for...
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