Thermal Inkjet Printing in Tissue Engineering and Regenerative Medicine

With the advantages of high throughput, digital control, and highly accurate placement of cells and biomaterial scaffold to the desired 2D and 3D locations, bioprinting has great potential to develop promising approaches in translational medicine and organ replacement. The most recent advances in organ and tissue bioprinting based on the thermal inkjet printing technology are described in this review. Bioprinting has no or little side effect to the printed mammalian cells and it can conveniently combine with gene transfection or drug delivery to the ejected living systems during the precise placement for tissue construction. With layer-by-layer assembly, 3D tissues with complex structures can be printed using…

• NS
  National Science Foundation

  Awards: 1011796, 0609035
• NI
  National Institutes of Health

  Awards: AG007996, UL1 RR025774
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  Division of Emerging Frontiers in Research and Innovation