Electrospinning and 3-D Printing for New Eardrums
June 16, 2015 | Terry Sharrer
Bioengineers at the University of Pisa in Italy have used two techniques—electrospinning and 3-D printing—to create polymer scaffolds and seeded with human mesenchymal stromal cells which mimic the human tympanic membrane. As one of the developers put it: “The eardrum has a complex structure with collagen fibers arranged precisely to interact with sound waves. We have replicated this structure in our scaffolds by combining electrospinning with 3D fiber deposition, and we believe this will eventually allow for replacements that are anatomically and acoustically similar to the eardrum.” MORE
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