Roadmap to Organ Printing
Abstract
Tissue engineering has been a promising field of research, offering a means to bridge the gap between organ shortage and transplantation needs; however, construction of three-dimensional (3D)-vascularized whole organs remains the main technological barrier to be overcome. Organ printing, which is defined as computer-aided additive biofabrication of 3D cellular constructs, has advanced this field into a new era. Organ printing takes advantage of bioprinting technology to print cells, biomaterials, and cell-laden biomaterials individually or in tandem, layer by layer, directly creating 3D organ constructs. This chapter presents the roadmap to organ printing technology step-by-step, detailing a set of interrelated ...
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