Trachea Without Tissue Scaffolds 3D Printing Advancements

Researchers from Nagasaki University in Japan are working on scaffold-free approaches for an artificial trachea by assessing the circumferential tracheal replacement using scaffold-free trachea-like grafts, generated from isolated cells in an inbred animal model. Regenova 3D bioprinter from Cyfuse Biomedical was used to assemble multicellular spheroids in a tube-shaped artificial trachea.

Source: http://www.bioprinting.ru/en/press-center/publications/scaffold-free-bioprinted-3d-tracheas-successfully-transplanted-into-rats/