Novel 3D Bioprinting Technique Offers Hope for Degenerative Diseases
“So many conditions can affect people as they age, and when we think of degenerative diseases, we often think of bone-related conditions like osteoporosis and arthritis, or neurological disorders like Parkinson’s. But degenerative conditions of the muscles and tendons are just as debilitating. As the aging population grows, treatments for these types of diseases are becoming ever more important, but there are complications in developing effective drugs because of the lack of efficient models that show how the drugs react in the body.
Researchers in Switzerland have made a breakthrough in testing these drugs, however, thanks to 3D bioprinting. In a new paper entitled “A Novel Microplate 3D Bioprinting Platform for the Engineering of Muscle and Tendon Tissues,” which you can read here, the researchers explain that 2D cell cultures “do not reflect the in vivo situation,” and so it’s important to develop reliable, robust 3D in vitro models. In the platform they developed, 3D bioprinting is used to automatically produce muscle- and tendon-like tissues…”
https://3dprint.com/216789/3d-bioprinting-degenerative/
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