Open AccessCurrent progresses of 3D bioprinting based tissue engineering
Author(s) -
Zhang Zeyu,
Wang XiuJie
Publication year - 2017
Publication title -
quantitative biology
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 0.707
H-Index - 15
eISSN - 2095-4697
pISSN - 2095-4689
DOI - 10.1007/s40484-017-0103-8
Subject(s) - 3d bioprinting , economic shortage , regenerative medicine , tissue engineering , regeneration (biology) , computer science , transplantation , biofabrication , biomedical engineering , medicine , stem cell , biology , surgery , linguistics , philosophy , government (linguistics) , genetics , microbiology and biotechnology
Background The shortage of available organs for transplantation is the major obstacle hindering the application of regenerative medicine, and has also become the desperate problem faced by more and more patients nowadays. The recent development and application of 3D printing technique in biological research (bioprinting) has revolutionized the tissue engineering methods, and become a promising solution for tissue regeneration. Results In this review, we summarize the current application of bioprinting in producing tissues and organoids, and discuss the future directions and challenges of 3D bioprinting. Conclusions Currently, 3D bioprinting is capable to generate patient‐specialized bone, cartilage, blood vascular network, hepatic unit and other simple components/tissues, yet pure cell‐based functional organs are still desired.