The approach could revolutionize regenerative medicine, enabling the production of complex tissues and cartilage that would potentially support, repair or augment diseased and damaged areas of the ...

The same technology that office workers use daily to print documents can be transformed into a "bioprinter" that uses cells instead of ink The same printer technology that sits on your desk could soon ...

This is no ordinary origami paper, it's made out of organ tissues and could eventually become a high-tech band aid. Northwestern University When Adam Jakus was a postdoc at Northwestern University he ...

A single 3D-printer head prints complex tissue with a customized phenotype for pharmaceutical testing. 1. The head releases all components from a single microfluidic syringe. It may include the ...

Despite the growing number of organ donors in the United States, wait times for organ transplants tend to be absolute nightmares. Expected wait times for, say, a liver transplant typically hover ...

Brigham and Women’s Hospital (BWH) has made headway in fabricating blood vessels using a three-dimensional (3D) bioprinting technique. They have a unique strategy for vascularization of hydrogel ...

Scientists are exploring how to use the office workhorse to create 3D cell structures in a tissue matrix. CHICAGO: The inkjet printer may appear to be an unlikely solution to the organ donor shortage ...

3D printing using semiconductor hybrid nanoparticles is slated to help grow bio-degradable implants, hydrogels, and bioscaffolds by enabling the use of aqueous substrates similar to the ones found in ...