Alexandra L. Rutz

TL;DR: 3D printable graphene (3DG) composite consisting of majority graphene and minority polylactide-co-glycolide, a biocompatible elastomer, 3D-printed from a liquid ink, reveals that 3DG supports human mesenchymal stem cell adhesion, viability, proliferation, and neurogenic differentiation with significant upregulation of glial and neuronal genes.

TL;DR: A multimaterial bio-ink method using polyethylene glycol crosslinking is presented for expanding the biomaterial palette required for 3D bioprinting of more mimetic and customizable tissue and organ constructs.

TL;DR: These findings present an in vivo functional ovarian implant designed with 3D printing, and indicate that scaffold pore architecture is a critical variable in additively manufactured scaffold design for functional tissue engineering.

TL;DR: Hyperelastic “bone” did not elicit a negative immune response, became vascularized, quickly integrated with surrounding tissues, and rapidly ossified and supported new bone growth without the need for added biological factors, set it apart from many of the materials now available for bone repair.

TL;DR: This perspective outlines considerations for addressing technical hurdles that, once overcome, will facilitate rapid advancement of 3D biomaterial printing as an indispensable tool for both investigating complex tissue and organ morphogenesis and for developing functional devices for a variety of diagnostic and regenerative medicine applications.