3-D Droplet Bioprinter
October 3, 2017 | Terry Sharrer
3-D printing has been used for some time to create artificial scaffolds upon which cells (usually stem cells) can be grown, but in this piece University of Oxford researchers report how they were able to directly print encapsulated cells into millimeter sized soft tissues. Quoting directly: “The cells were contained within protective nanolitre droplets wrapped in a lipid coating that could be assembled, layer-by-layer, into living structures. Producing printed tissues in this way improves the survival rate of the individual cells, and allowed the team to improve on current techniques by building each tissue one drop at a time to a more favourable resolution.” MORE
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