Michael J. Yost

TL;DR: This research lays a foundation for the development of alginate-based bioink for tissue-specific tissue engineering applications by systematically investigated the effects of two key material properties ofAlginate solutions on their printabilities to identify a suitable range of material properties to be applied to bioprinting.

TL;DR: Options for shifting the balance of healing from scarring to regeneration in the context of non-pathological wounds are discussed, with particular focus on potential therapies based on transforming growth factor (TGF)-beta signaling and recent unexpected findings involving targeting of gap junctional connexins.

TL;DR: The methods of bioprinting vascularized constructs, bioink for vascularization, and perspectives on recent innovations in 3D printing and biomaterials for the next generation of 3D biopprinting for vascularized tissue fabrication are covered.

TL;DR: Experimental results demonstrate that the microscope system with three-dimensional digital image correlation (3D-DIC) successfully measures the full 3D displacement and surface strain fields at the microscale during pressure cycling of 0.40-mm-diameter mouse arteries, confirming that the technique can be used to quantify changes in local biomechanical response which may result from variations in extracellular matrix composition.

TL;DR: 3D printing technology to deposit microdroplets of alginate solution on calcium containing substrates in a layer-by-layer fashion to prepare ring-shaped 3D hydrogel molds for the fabrication of scaffold-free tissue engineering constructs is developed.