Larger and extra life-like: What is the way forward for bioprinted organs?

How superior is the expertise for creating dwell, transferring organs for the human physique utilizing 3D printers? Bioprinting analysis in engineering tissues with bioink containing dwelling cells has been on the rise. Depending on the strategy for assembling bioprinted tissues, bigger tissues or organs could be created, which is resulting in a brand new period of customized remedy for sufferers.

The analysis workforce led by Professor Jinah Jang (Department of Convergence IT Engineering, Department of Mechanical Engineering) with Ph.D. candidates Yeonggwon Jo and Dong Gyu Hwang (School of Interdisciplinary Bioscience and Bioengineering) at POSTECH has developed a way for engineering organs at scale utilizing bioprinting. The findings from the research have been lately revealed within the worldwide journal Trends in Biotechnology. Professor Jinah Jang is an completed researcher on tissue engineering utilizing 3D bioprinting.

In beforehand revealed research, solely single tissues may very well be fabricated at a time, and the dimensions of the tissue was very small. Moreover, further parts have been required for the 3D printed organs to operate like actual tissues.

To overcome these points, the analysis workforce presents a brand new bioprinting expertise to engineer tissues much like organic tissues. Their meeting methodology additionally affords the potential for creating engineered organs greater than the earlier dimension restrict.

Professor Jinah Jang defined, “If we combine technologies such as bioprinting, new materials, and stem cells, we can produce more realistic engineered organs. In combination with robotics or artificial intelligence (AI), more automatized and elaborate methods for generation of organ substitutes would be possible in the future.”

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Pohang University of Science & Technology (POSTECH)