What is bioprinting?

Bioprinting is an extension of traditional 3D printing. Bioprinting can produce living tissue, bone, blood vessels and, potentially, whole organs for use in medical procedures, training and testing.

Who invented bioprinting?

Along with anatomical modeling, those kinds of non-biological uses continue today in the medical field. But it wasn’t until 2003 that Thomas Boland created the world’s first 3D bioprinter, capable of printing living tissue from a “bioink” of cells, nutrients and other bio-compatible substances.

What is the importance of bioprinting?

Bioprinting allows researchers to fabricate simplified homocellular tissue models for basic research or to produce more complex scaffolds with controlled spatial heterogeneity of physical properties, cellular composition, and ECM/biomolecule organization.

What cells are used for bioprinting?

3D BIOPRINTING OF MUSCULOSKELETAL TISSUE Various techniques have been applied to the bioprinting of musculoskeletal tissue using stem cells.

What are the stages of bioprinting?

These stages can be divided into three broad categories: pre-bioprinting, bioprinting and post-bioprinting. Each stage can influence others and has a bearing on the performance of fabricated constructs.

What are the benefits of bioprinting?

When was bioprinting first used?

Bioprinting was first demonstrated in 1988 while Klebe using a standard Hewlett-Packard (HP) inkjet printer to deposit cells by cytoscribing technology [6].

When was the first Bioprinted organ?

In April 2013 US company Organovo created the world’s first fully cellular 3D bioprinted liver tissue.

How is bioprinting used today?

Bioprinting (also known as 3D bioprinting) is combination of 3D printing with biomaterials to replicate parts that imitate natural tissues, bones, and blood vessels in the body. It is mainly used in connection with drug research and most recently as cell scaffolds to help repair damaged ligaments and joints.

What materials are used in bioprinting?

A large variety of polymers are under research for the use in bioprinting technology. Natural polymers, including collagen [20], gelatin [21], alginate [22], and hyaluronic acid (HA) [23], and synthetic polymers, such as PVA [24] and polyethylene glycol (PEG), are commonly used in bioinks for 3D printing.