I am looking at the feasibility of building a reprap to design a structural scaffold interlaced with a sugar lattice which would then be put into a biogel to culture cells, once these cells take hold, then dissolving out the sugar, exactly like they did at UPenn, and hooking it up to a vascular bioreactor that would feed the cells and mimic physiological forces.
[www.nature.com]
These guys used detergents to strip kidney tissue to a structural scaffold then reculture stem cells onto them. My thoughts are to evaluate if it is possible to build that initial scaffold from a 3D printer. Has anyone taken a look at building scaffolds, biogels, sugar lattices, or bioreactors, in concert with using a reprap?
-Soon to be american physician with a background in biomedical engineering that can't sit still for 5 minutes
[www.nature.com]
These guys used detergents to strip kidney tissue to a structural scaffold then reculture stem cells onto them. My thoughts are to evaluate if it is possible to build that initial scaffold from a 3D printer. Has anyone taken a look at building scaffolds, biogels, sugar lattices, or bioreactors, in concert with using a reprap?
-Soon to be american physician with a background in biomedical engineering that can't sit still for 5 minutes