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April 24, 2019

2D stacking method could make 3D-printed organs viable

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David Szondy

A new device created by a team of Berkeley scientists greatly hastens the possibility of using 3D printing technology to print a wide range of customized medical devices, including biomaterials like living tissue, bone, blood vessels, and organs. Led by mechanical engineering professor Boris Rubinsky, the team developed a technique that minimizes cell death during the printing process by using a number of printers to produce 2D layers of tissues simultaneously, stacking them into 3D structures. "Right now, bioprinting is primarily used to create a small volume of tissue. The problem with 3D bioprinting is that it is a very slow process, so you can't print anything big because the biological materials will deteriorate by the time you finish. One of our innovations is that we freeze the material as it is being printed, so that the biological material is preserved, and we can control the freezing rate," Professor Rubinsky says. For more on this, see our story at Berkeley News.

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