The combined potential of hydrogels and rapid prototyping technologies has been an
exciting route in developing tissue engineering scaffolds for the past decade. Hydrogels …

The aortic valve regulates unidirectional flow of oxygenated blood to the myocardium and
arterial system. The natural anatomical geometry and microstructural complexity ensures …

Heart valve disease is a serious and growing public health problem for which prosthetic
replacement is most commonly indicated. Current prosthetic devices are inadequate for …

Bioprinting is a process of precisely designed scaffolds using three-dimensional printing
technologies for functional tissue engineering utilizing cell-laden biomaterials as bioink. A …

Background Nerve injuries are debilitating, leading to long-term motor deficits.
Remyelination and axonal growth are supported and enhanced by growth factor and …

Materials, such as biopolymers, can be applied to produce scaffolds as mechanical support
for cell growth in regenerative medicine. Two examples are polycaprolactone (PCL) and …

Introduction Tissue engineering is a field which is currently under a great deal of
investigation for the development and/or restoration of tissue and organs, through the …

Presented here is an overview of a 3D bioprinting approach that generates complex 3D
geometry tissue constructs using extrudable materials and encapsulated cells based on …

Polymer scaffold fabrication has evolved in complexity as the field of tissue engineering has
developed, with a progression from traditional fabrication methods such as electrospinning …

While there is a vast diversity of processing techniques available for tissue engineering,
methods of rapid prototyping (RP) have several advantages over other current methods of …