3D Bioprinting for Organ Regeneration

• Published in: Advanced healthcare materials Vol. 6; no. 1
• Main Authors: Cui, Haitao, Nowicki, Margaret, Fisher, John P, Zhang, Lijie Grace
• Format: Journal Article
• Language: English
• Published: Germany 01.01.2017
• Subjects: Animals; Humans; Printing, Three-Dimensional; Regeneration; Regenerative Medicine - instrumentation; Regenerative Medicine - methods; 3D bioprinting; vascularization; neural regeneration; biomaterials; regenerative medicine; organ regeneration

Regenerative medicine holds the promise of engineering functional tissues or organs to heal or replace abnormal and necrotic tissues/organs, offering hope for filling the gap between organ shortage and transplantation needs. Three-dimensional (3D) bioprinting is evolving into an unparalleled biomanu...