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Essent Biologics Advances Human Biologic Research and Animal-Free Drug Testing
Navigating through an evolving biotech landscape, Essent Biologics is carving a niche with its focus on supporting those developing innovative therapies and its commitment to alternatives to traditional drug testing…
Bioprinting firm FluidForm Backed by New Jersey’s Biggest Healthcare Network
Two years into the pandemic, entire industries are still suffering the fallout from the unimaginable mass scale of the disease. However, since using biotech could help navigate the ongoing crisis,…
Researchers Use Aerosol Jet 3D Printing to Develop Neuronal Interface with More Anti-Inflammatory Ability
3D printing has been used in the past to help treat degenerative diseases, or at least make it easier to cope with them. In terms of neurodegenerative diseases, implanted prosthetic devices…
Researchers 3D Print Clamping Systems to Cut Down on Slippage During Soft Tissue Testing
When I think about clamps, if I do at all, it’s in terms of holding wood steady in a scene shop while making sets for a play, or keeping two…
UCSF Uses 3D Cell Patterning Technology to Fold Living Tissue Into Complex Shapes
The concept behind the ancient, well-known paper folding art known as origami can also be applied to an organism’s development process – as an egg turns into an embryo, and…
4D Printing Technique Could Be Used to Develop 3D Printed Human Organs for Transplant Patients
Often, when someone receives a life-saving organ transplant, this unfortunately means that another person recently lost their own life to provide it. But there are many researchers currently working to…
Jennifer Lewis’ Work on 3D Organs-on-Chips Awarded 2017 Lush Prize
Innovators and researchers the world over work to develop products that address human wants and needs. Regulatory bodies the world over also work to ensure that the products that are…
3Dynamic Systems to Commercialize Its 3D Bioprinted Vascular Tissue Scaffolds
Commercial 3D bioprinting systems manufacturer 3Dynamic Systems, based out of the Swansea University campus in Wales, is well known for its bioprinting research studies and 3D bioprinters. The company has…
Bioprinting Organs: Researchers Create Less Expensive Bioink Based in 3D Printed Gelatin Hydrogels
3D printed hydrogels have had many different applications in the medical field, from delivering precise doses of medicine and making custom meniscus implants to engineering tissue so that in the…
NIH Grant Awarded to Organovo to Use Its 3D Printed Liver Tissue to Study Liver Disease with UC San Diego
California-based bioprinting company Organovo is well-known to those in both the 3D printing and medical research worlds, due to its 3D printed kidney and liver tissues. The company, which previously announced…
Australian Surgeons Successfully Use 3D Stem Cell BioPen to Draw Knee Cartilage into Sheep, Ready for Commercialization, Human Trials
When it comes to 3D printing in the medical field, it seems like Australia is the place to watch these days. In just a few of many examples, the country…
3D Printed Bio-Tissues: Navigating Patent Protection
Navigating what is patentable in 3D printed bio-tissues is complicated. Generally, laws of nature, natural phenomena, and abstract ideas are patent ineligible. Thus a new mineral discovered in the earth…
CELLINK 3D Prints Miniature Ears & Unveils First Universal Bioink for Printing Living Tissue
Science-fiction has always been enamored by the idea of humans creating other human beings, or robots that appear to be human themselves. While this probably won’t ever happen, at least…
