Brook Damon

TL;DR: Recent advances in organ printing technology for applications relating to medical interventions and organ replacement are described and an exciting advance pioneered in the laboratory is that of simultaneous printing of Cells and biomaterials, which allows precise placement of cells and proteins within 3‐D hydrogel structures.

TL;DR: Functional biomechanical properties of periostin null skin specimens and atrioventricular valve explant experiments provided direct evidence of the role that periastin plays in regulating the viscoelastic properties of connective tissues.

TL;DR: Three-dimensional tissue structures are formed through the postprinting fusion of the bio-ink particles, in analogy with early structure-forming processes in the embryo that utilize the apparent liquid-like behavior of tissues composed of motile and adhesive cells.

TL;DR: Cell printing opens the possibility to programmed deposition of scaffold structure and cell type, thus controlling the type of tissue that can be regenerated within the scaffold, and suggests that the printing method could be used for hierarchical design of functional cardiac patches, balanced with porosity for mass transport and structural support.

TL;DR: This work employed discrete and continuous bioprinting to build three-dimensional tissue constructs, which included rectangular tissue blocks of several hundred microns in thickness as well as tubular structures of several millimeters in height.