Abstract
This bioprinting roadmap features salient advances in selected applications of the technique and highlights the status of current developments and challenges, as well as envisioned advances in science and technology, to address the challenges to the young and evolving technique. The topics covered in this roadmap encompass the broad spectrum of bioprinting; from cell expansion and novel bioink development to cell/stem cell printing, from organoid-based tissue organization to bioprinting of human-scale tissue structures, and from building cell/tissue/organ-on-a-chip to biomanufacturing of multicellular engineered living systems. The emerging application of printing-in-space and an overview of bioprinting technologies are also included in this roadmap. Due to the rapid pace of methodological advancements in bioprinting techniques and wide-ranging applications, the direction in which the field should advance is not immediately clear. This bioprinting roadmap addresses this unmet need by providing a comprehensive summary and recommendations useful to experienced researchers and newcomers to the field.
Original language | English |
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Article number | 022002 |
Number of pages | 33 |
Journal | Biofabrication |
Volume | 12 |
Issue number | 2 |
Early online date | 7 Feb 2020 |
DOIs | |
Publication status | Published - 30 Apr 2020 |
Funding
This work has been supported by an NSF Award # 1624515, NIH Awards # R21 CA224422 01A1 and 1U19AI142733-01, and a Hartz Family Professorship to I.T.O.
Keywords
- biofabrication
- bioprinting
- cell printing
- disease models
- in vitro biological models
- organ-on-a-chip
- organoids