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bioprinter

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[bahy-oh-prin-ter] / ˈbaɪ oʊˌprɪn tər /

noun

  • bioprinters
    plural
  1. a specialized 3D printer used to produce material made of living cells.


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Each component was loaded into one of three compartments in the bioprinter.

From Science Daily ● Mar. 4, 2024

Finally, they used an extrusion bioprinter -- a device that resembles a 3D printer but for organic material -- to layer the different types of cancer cells onto the prepared microfluidic chips.

From Science Daily ● Oct. 16, 2023

The black market bioprinter was in a dirty shanty worse than the chicken shack we won’t eat at, but the contact lenses still cost as much as the ID.

From Nature ● May 26, 2020

US start-up Modern Meadow believes it can do just that - by making artificial raw meat using a 3D bioprinter.

From BBC ● Jan. 21, 2013

In the meantime, the company’s team, which previously founded medical bioprinter manufacturer Organovo, will work for the next two years on perfecting their processes and materials, and creating a small volume of products.

From Scientific American ● Sep. 18, 2012

Printers of any kind need ink, and bioprinters are no different.

From BBC ● Sep. 10, 2018

For these highly complex organs bioprinters provide a precision that surpasses human hands, he says.

From BBC ● Sep. 10, 2018

“There’s all these weird ways that we could go about doing this,” he said, with a spectrum of imaginable approaches that includes organoids, interspecies organ farming, and building organs from scratch using 3D bioprinters.

From Slate ● May 9, 2018

Unlike other bioprinters that extrude ink like toothpaste from a tube, Kloke's system uses stereolithography.

From Nature ● May 16, 2017

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