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Application Of Inkjet Printing To Tissue Engineering, Thomas Boland, Tao Xu, Brook Damon, Xiaofeng Cui
Application Of Inkjet Printing To Tissue Engineering, Thomas Boland, Tao Xu, Brook Damon, Xiaofeng Cui
Thomas Boland
ecent advances in organ printing technology for applications relating to medical interventions and organ replacement are described. Organ printing refers to the placement of various cell types into a soft scaffold fabricated according to a computer-aided design template using a single device. Computer aided scaffold topology design has recently gained attention as a viable option to achieve function and mass transport requirements within tissue engineering scaffolds. An exciting advance pioneered in our laboratory is that of simultaneous printing of cells and biomaterials, which allows precise placement of cells and proteins within 3-D hydrogel structures. This advance raises the possibility of …