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Bio‐electrospraying and Cell Electrospinning: Progress and Opportunities for Basic Biology and Clinical Sciences
Author(s) -
Poncelet Denis,
de Vos Paul,
Suter Nicolai,
Jayasinghe Suwan N.
Publication year - 2012
Publication title -
advanced healthcare materials
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 2.288
H-Index - 90
eISSN - 2192-2659
pISSN - 2192-2640
DOI - 10.1002/adhm.201100001
Subject(s) - flourishing , regenerative medicine , nanotechnology , ageing society , tissue engineering , basic research , engineering ethics , biochemical engineering , stem cell , engineering , computer science , biology , medicine , biomedical engineering , materials science , microbiology and biotechnology , gerontology , psychology , library science , psychotherapist
Engineering of functional tissues is a fascinating and fertile arena of research and development. This flourishing enterprise weaves together many areas of research to tackle the most complex question faced to date, namely how to design and reconstruct a synthetic three‐dimensional fully functional tissue on demand. At present our healthcare is under threat by several social and economical issues together with those of a more scientific and clinical nature. One such issue arises from our increasing life expectancy, resulting in an ageing society. This steeply growing ageing society requires functional organotypic tissues on demand for repair, replacement, and rejuvenation (R 3 ). Several approaches are pioneered and developed to assist conventional tissue/organ transplantation. In this Progress Report, “non‐contact jet‐based” approaches for engineering functional tissues are introduced and bio‐electrosprays and cell electrospinning, i.e., biotechniques that have demonstrated as being benign for directly handling living cells and whole organisms, are highlighted. These biotechniques possess the ability to directly handle heterogeneous cell populations as suspensions with a biopolymer and/or other micro/nanomaterials for directly forming three‐dimensional functional living reconstructs. These discoveries and developments have provided a promising biotechnology platform with far‐reaching ramifications for a wide range of applications in basic biological laboratories to their utility in the clinic.