biofabrication

[bahy-oh-fab-ri-kay-shuhn]

noun

plural

biofabrications 

1. the branch of biotechnology specializing in the manufacture of products from biological materials, such as cells and tissues.

2. the manufacturing of products using biological materials.

Example Sentences

Their study has been published in the journal Biofabrication.

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"In this way, we can reliably produce tissue elements in which the cells are evenly distributed and the cell density is very high. This would not have been possible with previous approaches," explains Prof. Aleksandr Ovsianikov, head of the 3D Printing and Biofabrication research group at TU Wien.

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Biofabrication companies are increasingly excited about the prospect of using fungi to produce sturdy, sustainable alternatives to plastic and leather.

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No biofabrication companies currently use agarikon mycelial mats.

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“We're trying to streamline the treatment of aneurysms and take the guesswork out,” says William “Rick” Hynes, a study co-author and biofabrication research engineer at Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory who performed the surgery.

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