Newswise — IOP Publishing is pleased to announce the online publication of "Aerodynamically assisted bio-jets: the development of a novel and direct non-electric field-driven methodology for engineering living organisms" in the widely-respected Biomedical Materials (bmm.iop.org). This article is the first to use a non-electric field-driven jetting technique which the researchers refer to as Aerodynamically Assisted Bio-jetting for process handling and fabrication of living organisms (cells).
Using this technique researchers are able to form cell-bearing droplets and droplet residues which can then be used for creating biologically viable architectures (scaffolds and tissues). The advantage of this approach over others is by using different parameters (such as different flow-rates to the needle and different chamber pressures) one is able to form droplets as small as a few micrometers and droplet residues as small as in the tens of nanometers.
The article is available online at the following link: http://herald.iop.org/aerodynamically/m3/terri/link/1014.
"Aerodynamically assisted bio-jets: the development of a novel and direct non-electric field-driven methodology for engineering living organisms" is authored by Sumathy Arumuganathar and Suwan N Jayasinghe of University College London, along with Jean R McEwan and Scott Irvine of The Royal Free and University College London Medical School.
Author Dr. Suwan N Jayasinghe stated, "The goal is to develop these approaches for the direct creation of biologically viable tissues to one day consummating a fully functional organ for bio-repair. Notably these approaches if applied with stem cells could directly fabricate unspecialized tissues which would revolutionize and advance regenerative and therapeutic medicine."
Biomedical Materials publishes original research findings that contribute to our knowledge about the composition, properties, and performance of materials for tissue engineering and regenerative medicine. To learn more about Biomedical Materials please visit, http://bmm.iop.org or contact Terri Morhaleck at 215-627-0880 or email to [email protected].
IOP Publishing is a not-for-profit learned society publisher, with a reputation for quality and high standards of service. We have a comprehensive range of products serving the physics and physics-related communities, and we are an established leader in the world of scientific journals and electronic publishing. To learn more about Biomedical Materials and other IOP Publishing journals, please visit ioppublishing.org.
RSS