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Does anyone have access to the full text? Sci-hub hasn't got any proxies for this apparently. I'm curious what geometry they're printing the the EC/PC bio-ink
by nickparker 7y ago
Does anyone have access to the full text? Sci-hub hasn't got any proxies for this apparently.
I'm curious what geometry they're printing the the EC/PC bio-ink in, eg printing coarse grained vasculature networks.
If they're leaning too heavily on self-assembly I would start to question the term 3D printing here. Particularly if they're, for example, just printing homogeneous layers of the different inks and the syringe-on-a-gantry was just a readily available way to do so.
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- tbaltazar 7y agoIt’s round and 2cm in diameter when we do in vivo studies in mice. But with the printer we can potentially scale up and make any shape we want. The advantage is that we can create personalized shapes with different thicknesses to fit the wound site. You’re correct: in this study 3D printing is being used as a tool for high throughput production of skin tissue. This will be important to make this a cost-effective treatment. However, we are also working on the inclusion of hair follicles which require patterning and later self-assembly. Microvasculature in skin doesn’t really require patterning but higher caliber vessels in other organs, such as heart, will likely need it.