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Silk Fibers Improve Bioink for 3D-Printed Artificial Tissues and Organs

2020-10-13

Silk Fibers Improve Bioink for 3D-Printed Artificial Tissues and Organs

How do you test, in early-stage research, whether a potential pharmaceutical effectively targets a human tumor, organ, or some other part of the body? How do you grow a new hand or some other body part? Researchers are in the early stages of using 3D cell printing technology to make developments like these happen. A standard way—currently unavailable—to fix the cells in place after printing...