3-D Printing with Synthetic DNA
April 28, 2015 | Terry Sharrer
The dream of 3-D printing transplantable organs, even for drug testing, requires hydrogel “inks” that can maintain living cells. To that end, researchers in Beijing and Edinburg have created two-water based inks from peptides and synthetic DNA, into which they can place live cells. The inks act like two part glues that only activate when they are mixed. A minor alteration in the synthetic DNA supports cellular stiffness and allows those cells to survive the printing process. So far, this has been demonstrated in mice. MORE
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