Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory is involved in some pretty exciting research, including, but not limited to, 3D printing graphene and 3D printing metamaterials with unique properties and geometric structures. Their latest advances fall directly into the bioprinting field, where LLNL has 3D printed structures meant to develop into blood vessels on their own.
“It’s going to change the way we do biology,” says Monica Moya, the project’s principal investigator and a Lab research engineer. “This technology can take biology from the traditional petri dish to a 3D physiologically relevant tissue patch with functional vasculature.”
To create the structures, the LLNL team first 3D printed tubes with human primary cells and biomaterials, which would deliver nutrients to the surrounding 3D printed environment. …
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