Better Inkjets For Tissue Engineering

Inkjet printing technology is in the process of adaptation to tissue engineering - we've been hearing about this for the past year or two. A part of this adaptation is finding ways to improve those aspects of this technology that are substandard for the new use. From PhysicsWeb: "The advantage of this method compared to conventional ink-jet technology is that it can create droplets as small as just a few microns across from needles with diameters as large as hundreds of microns. ... The technique may have huge potential for patterning predetermined 2D and 3D biological architectures, such as tissues and organs, at the micron and nanometre scales." A number of organs are very complex at these scales - this is a promising piece of groundwork.

Link: http://physicsweb.org/articles/news/10/1/5

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