Boris Rubinsky

Research Expertise and Interest

medical imaging, biotechnology, biomedical engineering, low temperature biology, micro and nano bionic technologies, electrical impedance tomography, bio-electronics, biomedical devices biomedical numerical analysis, bio-heat and mass transfer, electroporation light imaging

Research Description

Rubinsky's special research interests include: heat and mass transfer in biomedical engineering and biotechnology in particular low temperature biology, bio-electronics and biomedical devices in particular micro and nano bionic technologies and electroporation, medical imaging in particular electrical impedance tomography and light imaging, biomedical numerical analysis in particular genetic and evolutionary algorithms and fractal techniques.

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April 24, 2019
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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