Abstract
Tissue engineering is a biomedical technology of artificial development of living three-dimensional human tissues and organs. Tissue engineering is based on two distinct premises. First more conventional approach uses solid biodegradable porous scaffolds as a temporal supporting framework for living cells attachment and sequential formation of three-dimensional tissue whereas second emerging approach is a solid scaffold-free directed tissue self-assembly with using tissue spheroids or microtissues as building blocks. In this paper novel hybrid approach or so-called third strategy in tissue engineering which combines advantages of first and second approaches is presented. The novel concept of lockyballs or tissue spheroids encaged into interlockable synthetic microscaffolds is described.
Original language | English |
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Title of host publication | Proceedings of the 1st International Conference on Progress in Additive Manufacturing, Pro-AM 2014 |
Editors | Chee Kai Chua, Wai Yee Yeong, Ming Jen Tan, Erjia Liu |
Publisher | Pro-AM |
Pages | 453-458 |
Number of pages | 6 |
ISBN (Electronic) | 9789810904463 |
DOIs | |
Publication status | Published - 2014 |
Event | Progress in Additive Manufacturing: 1st International Confrence - Singapore Duration: 26 May 2014 → 28 May 2014 Conference number: 1 |
Publication series
Name | Proceedings of the International Conference on Progress in Additive Manufacturing |
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Volume | 0 |
ISSN (Print) | 2424-8967 |
Conference
Conference | Progress in Additive Manufacturing |
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City | Singapore |
Period | 26/05/14 → 28/05/14 |
Keywords*
- Interlockable lockyballs
- Microscaffolds
- Photo-sensitive biomaterials
- Tissue engineering
- Tissue spheroids
- Two photon polymerization
Field of Science*
- 2.6 Medical engineering
- 2.5 Materials engineering
Publication Type*
- 3.3. Publications in conference proceedings indexed in Web of Science and/or Scopus database