Search results for 3-D bioprinting

Materials Science Oct 8, 2020

Silk fibers improve bioink for 3-D-printed artificial tissues and organs

How do you test, in early-stage research, whether a potential pharmaceutical effectively targets a human tumor, organ, or some other part of the body? How do you grow a new hand or another body part? Researchers are in the ...

Cell & Microbiology Jul 13, 2020

New bioink for cell bioprinting in 3-D

A research group led by Daniel Aili, associate professor at Linköping University, has developed a bioink to print tissue-mimicking material in 3-D printers. The scientists have developed a method and a material that allow ...

Polymers Jun 8, 2020

Using near-infrared light to 3-D print an ear inside the body

A team of researchers with members from several institutions in China, one in the U.S. and one in Belgium, has developed a method for 3-D printing an ear inside of the body. In their paper published in the journal Science ...

Biotechnology May 4, 2020

Biofabrication: 3-D printing, sonic tweezers, and the creation of neurons in microscopic cages

Microscopically small cages have been produced at TU Wien (Vienna) with grid openings only a few micrometers in size, making them ideal for holding cells and allowing living tissue to grow in a very specific shape. This new ...

Materials Science Apr 9, 2020

3-D-printed corals could improve bioenergy and help coral reefs

Researchers from Cambridge University and University of California San Diego have 3-D printed coral-inspired structures that are capable of growing dense populations of microscopic algae. Their results, reported in the journal ...

Biotechnology Mar 6, 2020

Machine sucks up tiny tissue spheroids and prints them precisely

A new method of bioprinting uses aspiration of tiny biologics such as spheroids, cells and tissue strands, to precisely place them in 3-D patterns either on scaffolding or without to create artificial tissues with natural ...

Nanomaterials Mar 4, 2020

Biomaterial discovery enables 3-D printing of tissue-like vascular structures

An international team of scientists have discovered a new material that can be 3-D printed to create tissue-like vascular structures.

Biotechnology Feb 14, 2020

Transparent human organs allow 3-D maps at the cellular level

For the first time, researchers have managed to make intact human organs transparent. Using microscopic imaging, they revealed complex underlying structures of the transparent organs at the cellular level. The resulting organ ...

Materials Science Feb 13, 2020

Printing tiny, high-precision objects in a matter of seconds

Researchers at EPFL have developed a new, high-precision method for 3-D-printing small, soft objects. The process, which takes less than 30 seconds from start to finish, has potential applications in a wide range of fields, ...

Biotechnology Feb 7, 2020

Mapping the future direction for bioprinting research

The way research in bioprinting will be taken forward has been laid out in a roadmap for the field.

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