Nano Dimensions 3D Print Stem Cells

In 1999, Anthony Atala’s regenerative medicine group at Wake Forest University used a 3-D bioprinter to create a bladder scaffold, which they seeded with cells to group up a functioning implant. By 2010, the San Diego-company Organovo printed the first blood vessel, and since then researchers worldwide have been testing approaches to printing with stem cell bioink to create large tissues and fully formed organs. This piece reports a tantalizing prospect involving two Israeli companies, the high speed bioprinting firm Nano Dimension (Ness Ziona) and a biotech, Accellta (Haifa), which specializes in stem cell suspension technologies.   In the near term, these collaborators intend to make living “chips” for drug and cosmetic testing, but their combined technologies suggest a larger horizon.  MORE

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