Melt Deposition Modelling of Bioactive Organic/Inorganic Hybrid Scaffolds: Hybrid materials/ blends offer more potential to mimic artificial bones because of better biological/physical properties. E.g. cell adhesion might be much better than for pure PCL. 3D printing of such material, however, could be challenging due to difficult viscoelastic properties. A team at LPC lab (University of [...]

Peptide Chitosan/Dextran Core/Shell vascularized 3D Constructs for Wound Healing: Vascularization is still a challenge when creating artificial tissue by 3D printing. New Zealand researchers successfully put a step forward using the core/shell extruder of the GeSiM bioprinter BS3.1. This tool prints two different materials in a coaxial manner. The team at University of Otago used [...]

An Animal Study for Insulin Delivery by Microneedles: Microneedle arrays are miniature puncturing devices that disrupt the skin barrier to deliver therapeutic agents trans dermally, in a pain free manner. Common drawbacks associated with typical microneedle coating techniques such as dip-coating, suffer from poor controllability of the outcome in terms of coating morphology, spatial deposition [...]