Engineers from UNSW Sydney have developed a miniature and flexible soft robotic arm that could be used to 3D-print biomaterial directly onto organs inside a person's body.
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Given enough time and energy, the body will heal, but when doctors or engineers intervene, the processes do not always proceed as planned because chemicals that control and facilitate the healing process are missing. Now, ...
Apr 12, 2022
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New muscle has successfully been created in mice using a minimally invasive technique dubbed "intravital 3-D bioprinting" by a team involving UCL scientists.
Jun 25, 2020
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Researchers at EPFL have developed an approach to print tiny tissues that look and function almost like their full-sized counterpart. Measuring just a few centimeters across, the mini-tissues could allow scientists to study ...
Sep 24, 2020
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I work in the field of bioprinting, where the aim is to build biological tissues by printing living cells into 3-D structures.
May 28, 2019
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Researchers in China have taken the first step towards a new way of treating gastric wounds by using a microrobot combined with the new concept of "in situ in vivo bioprinting" to carry out tissue repair inside the body.
Aug 12, 2020
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When we have small wounds on our skin or muscles they can usually heal by themselves.
Apr 8, 2019
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Human organ transplants offer a crucial lifeline to people with serious illnesses, but there are too few organs to go around: in the U.S. alone, there are more than 112,000 people currently waiting for transplants. The promise ...
Apr 13, 2022
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Swedish researchers at Sahlgrenska Academy and Chalmers University of Technology have successfully induced human cartilage cells to live and grow in an animal model, using 3-D bioprinting. The results will move development ...
Mar 23, 2017
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In the last few years, the use of 3-D printing has exploded in medicine. Engineers and medical professionals now routinely 3-D print prosthetic hands and surgical tools. But 3-D printing has only just begun to transform the ...
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