A new
tissue engineering technique
coupled with special mechanisms has given rise to a new form of bio-engineering
which may one day generate new organs.
BioP3, a new device
created by scientists at the Brown University holds immense potential in tissue
engineering. It can already generate new tissues and scientists at the
University are hopeful that it will play a defining role in creating organs as
well.
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Currently 3D
printing of organs is seen as one way of achieving sustenance for organ
replacement in the future. However, the technology used in BioP3 could give 3D
printing in bio-engineering a good run.
The device is
currently manually operated by the scientists given the early nature of the
invention.
The idea behind the
technology is stacking up of tissue pieces one over another. The tissue pieces
here are known as “micro-tissues” and are created using a technique called
“micro-moulding”. This technique was also developed by the same scientists at
Brown as part of the larger process.
Using
micro-moulding, cells can be made to take any shape as directed. These
individual pieces, or micro-tissues, are then stacked one over the other using
a suction nozzle. After a “short time”, these tissues bind together to form the
larger composition in the form of an organ.
However, given the
lack of automation in this new system, it takes over an hour to stack merely a
handful of micro-tissues. The resultant formation is much smaller than what a
full-sized organ would be like.
On a brighter note,
the group recently received about 1.4 Million in funding and with sustained
development, this technology could compete with the currently propagated plan
of using bio-printing to make organs which takes tediously long time.
What started as
merely tissue engineering could soon lead to faster generation of body organs.
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