Printing Retinas
February 11, 2014 | Terry Sharrer

3D Printed Retina
Ophthalmology researchers at Cambridge University have taken a large step toward engineering functional retinas using an ink jet printer. In animal studies, they showed how the printer could lay down two essential retinal layers—one of mature neural ganglion cells and the other of glia, non-neural cells, that support the neurons. This is the first report of ink jet printing of an adult animal’s central nervous system tissue. Fully functional printed retinas, however, still require other layers of photoreceptor cells and pigment epithelial cells. That’s the next step. MORE
Image Credit: Cambridge University and Technology Review