Magic happens when we combine a 3D printer with tissue engineering and regenerative medicine. Add materials science, biotechnology, and medical technology, and the result is an explosion of innovation in 3D engineered tissues. Through a storytelling method, this fine book provides readers with insights into how bioprinting has changed tissue engineering and regenerative medicine and how it can change the way we approach human diseases in the future.

Autorentext
Kenneth Douglas is a research faculty member in the Department of Physics at the University of Colorado Boulder. He earned a BA in mathematics and an MS in physics at the University of Chicago and a PhD in physics at the University of Colorado Boulder. Douglas' laboratory created the strategy of employing the surface layers of bacterial extremophiles as biomolecular masks to generate ordered nanostructured materials. His first book was DNA Nanoscience: From Prebiotic Origins to Emerging Nanotechnology (2017).

Klappentext

In Bioprinting, Kenneth Douglas comprehensively explains how scientists are using 3D printing technology to print human tissues and ultimately human organs.

Inhalt

• Foreword, by Donald E. Ingber

• Preface

• Acknowledgments

• Introduction: Frailty, Thy Name is Human

• Chapter 1: Printing Paradigms

• Chapter 2: All About Cells

• Chapter 3: Bioprinted Cartilage-The Dream and the Devilish Details

• Chapter 4: Vascularization-Getting Blood from Here to There, Everywhere

• Chapter 5: Innervation-The Body's Internet

• Chapter 6: Skin and Bones-and Muscle Too

• Chapter 7: The Liver-Regenerative Tissue That Can Almost Bioprint Itself

• Chapter 8: The Heart-Cardiac Patches, Calcium, and Contraction Forces

• Chapter 9: Organs-on-a-Chip-Tissues for Testing

• Chapter 10: The Kidney-The Ne Plus Ultra of Filters

• Chapter 11: What's in the Offing?

• Epilogue

• Glossary

• Index