3d printed tissue
Researchers Develop New Method of 3D Printing Living Bio-Tissues for Cancer Research
The University of British Columbia (UBC) Okanagan campus is a research hub located in the middle of British Columbia’s beautiful Okanagan Valley, and ranked among the world’s top 20 public universities….
Penn State Uses 3D Near-Field Electrospinning Method to Create Scaffolds for Living Tissue
As of right now, almost every complex transplant tissue, whether it’s a tendon or a kidney or a heart, comes from donors who are living or dead. A research team…
Organovo & Viscient Biosciences Collaborate for 3D Bioprinting in Liver Disease Research
Earlier this month, both Organovo and Viscient Biosciences announced their intent to collaborate on research for further studies into liver disease. There have been many interesting stories about Organovo and…
3Dynamic Systems to Commercialize Its 3D Bioprinted Vascular Tissue Scaffolds
Commercial 3D bioprinting systems manufacturer 3Dynamic Systems, based out of the Swansea University campus in Wales, is well known for its bioprinting research studies and 3D bioprinters. The company has…
German and Canadian Organizations Partner to Develop 3D Printed Contractile Tissue
It’s been a big week for bioprinting, with news of planned 3D printed organs coming from both Prellis Biologics and BIOLIFE4D. The bioprinting world is one that doesn’t slow down, and…
University of Oxford Develops New 3D Bioprinting Method
As 3D bioprinting continues to advance, there are still challenges that plague most methods of 3D printing tissue. One of those challenges involves properly positioning the 3D printed cells within…
ARMI Experimenting with 3D Printing Cancer Cells in Next-Generation Biofabrication Efforts
Although 3D printing and the future are consistently mentioned together, what is already happening in the here and now is of great importance—and inspiration. We see 3D printing being used…
10 Highlights of the EnvisionTEC 3D-Bioplotter’s Long Career
Last week, we took a look at what has become one of the most commonly used 3D bioprinters in the industry. The 3D-Bioplotter from EnvisionTEC has now been used in more…
Researchers Use Laponite to Improve 3D Printing with Hydrogels
3D printing has touched nearly every industry today. What the average consumer or hobbyist may not be aware of though is that within each of those industries, 3D printing and…
Why Drug Testing May Be the Most Important Application of 3D Bioprinting
3D bioprinting is, needless to say, great cause for excitement. Usually, most people’s minds go immediately to one idea: the idea that in the future, we may be able to…
Peer-Reviewed Bioprinting: EnvisionTEC 3D-Bioplotter Series Now Featured in Over 200 Research Papers
EnvisionTEC is often mentioned in the same sentence as jewelry and dental 3D printing, and that’s fair, as the company does supply a good selection of 3D printers and materials…
3D Printing a Thyroid: 3D Bioprinting Solutions Research May Enable Future Organ Bioprinting
The thyroid is a tiny organ, but it can cause some big problems if it malfunctions – and there are quite a few ways in which it can malfunction. It’s…
3D Printing News Briefs: June 13, 2017
We’re talking about bioprinting and new filaments, trade shows and business in today’s 3D Printing News Briefs. CollPlant has filed a patent application for bioprinting organs and tissues, while both Graphene…
3Dynamic Systems Develops New Technology for Treatment of Microtia
We’ve seen numerous wonders emerging from Swansea University, a learning institution known for its research—much of which has revolved around bioprinting. The Wales campus is also home to 3Dynamic Systems,…
Organovo and University of Virginia Team Up to Address Volumetric Muscle Loss Through 3D Printing
The human body is remarkably resilient, but sometimes injuries or illnesses are so severe that it can’t repair itself, at least not completely. Such is the case with volumetric muscle…
Researchers 3D Print Cartilage with Stem Cells Taken from Human Knee
One of the challenges of 3D bioprinting is getting the stem cells which make up the biological “ink” to survive the 3D printing process – not to mention keeping them…
UC San Diego Breakthrough: 3D Printed Blood Vessel Network Survives and Functions Within Mice
One of the most difficult roadblocks in the quest to 3D print functional, transplantable human organs isn’t the printing of the organ itself – it’s the creation of the critical…
Organovo Releases Fiscal Report for Q3 2017; Offers Projections for the Year
As Organovo leads in the realm of 3D printed human tissue, it’s no surprise to see that revenues are up once again—and substantially so. Reporting fiscal results for Q3 2017…
Spanish Researchers Tell Us About Their 3D Bioprinter, Capable of Printing Functional Human Skin
3D bioprinting started as a far-off prospect greeted with skepticism – 3D printed human organs? Come on. It’s progressed to the point, though, that while it still boggles minds, few…
Organovo Partners with Murdoch Childrens Research Institute for Bioprinted Kidney Research
The name Organovo is one that instantly commands admiration, if not awe, from anyone familiar with it. The tissue engineering company is something of a hero within both the medical and…
CELLINK Introduces the BIO X, a Flexible, User-Friendly Bioprinter with Everything a Tissue Engineer Could Want
The field of 3D bioprinting is expanding fast, and as more and more companies and institutions emerge in the field, it can be hard to keep track of who is…
3D Printed Bio-Tissues: Navigating Patent Protection
Navigating what is patentable in 3D printed bio-tissues is complicated. Generally, laws of nature, natural phenomena, and abstract ideas are patent ineligible. Thus a new mineral discovered in the earth…
Advanced 3D Bioprinting Laboratory to Open in Europe Next Year
3D printing has so many lifesaving and life-changing applications in the medical field that we could write almost exclusively about its healthcare potential and never run out of material. 3D…
Nature-Made or Man-Made? Inside 3D Printing Attendees Try to Guess in The Nature Game
Based on Alan Turing’s famous Turing Test, known as The Imitation Game, The Nature Game seeks to draw attention to the convergence between natural and man-made objects. In conjunction with…
