SUTD leads in-depth review on the impending reality of 3D printed organs and analyses recent accomplishments, limitations, and opportunities for future research.
According to researchers from the Singapore University of Technology and Design (SUTD), Nanyang Technological University (NTU) and Asia University, tissue culture techniques in particular require accelerated progress to address the bottleneck of maturing bioprinted multi-cellular 3D tissue constructs into functional tissues. Their research paper entitled “Print me an organ! Why are we not there yet?” has been published in the Progress in Polymer Science.
In the paper, researchers also provided an in-depth review of recent improvements and analyzed the bioprinting techniques, progress in bio-ink development, implementation of new bioprinting and tissue maturation strategies. Special attention was also given to the role of polymer science and how it complemented 3D bioprinting to overcome some of the major impediments such as achieving biomimicry, vascularization, and 3D anatomically-relevant biological structures, in the field of organ printing
Source: EurekAlert!
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