UNIVERSITY PARK, Pa., Aug. 18 -- Pennsylvania State University issued the following news release:
UNIVERSITY PARK, Pa. - An interdisciplinary team of engineers and chemists at Penn State has laid the groundwork to 3D print spheroids - tiny clusters of living cells - capable of regenerating bone tissue in response to severe trauma or infections.
By introducing different strands of genetic information into undifferentiated, commercially sourced stem cells, the team has demonstrated that bioprinting, which layers the fundamental building blocks of an organ tissue, can create cell clusters optimized to support bone tissue regeneration. The bioprinted spheroids are not just better at helping bone tissue heal, the researchers reported, but the...