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BIOPRINTING OR LIVING CELLS CONSTRUCTION

BioP3, an organ bio-printer to be

Patience is one of the best qualites to possess in the field of medicine. The regenerative process of bone or skin for example is a long and laborious wait. Nowadays, everything is getting faster. Waiting should be an option, finding a cure as quick as possible is the main goal.

Bioengineers from Brown University are developing a new tissue-building printer that stacks bunches of living cells on top of each other to create complex arrangements. They hope it will also be able to build replacement organs because their process of picking and placing groups of cells should eventually be able to produce more complex tissues. In contrast to 3D bioprinting that prints one small drop at a time, the Brown University team approach is much faster because it uses pre-assembled living building parts with functional shapes and a thousand times more cells per part. They are like bio-architects!

The printer is called the BioP3 (as in Bio-Pick, Place and Perfuse). Imagine a tiny jenga tower made of thousands of cells, when stacked on top of each other, these cell groups naturally fuse with the layer below, giving the team hope that they can produce complex structuresor with supports and voids.

The voids in these simple structures, which amounted to a couple of million cells, allowed nutrients and fluids to get distributed to all the living components.

The group has received funding from the National Science Foundation to continue working on their machine. The BioP3 prototype joins other projects hoping to one day reach the goal of printing organs on demand.

BIOPRINTING OR LIVING CELLS CONSTRUCTION

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  • Providence, RI 02912, United States
  • Brown University

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