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19-12-2013, 12:53 PM
The AFP news agency reports on a paper in the British journal Biofabrication (http://iopscience.iop.org/1758-5090/)
where researchers at the University of Cambridge John van Geest Centre for Brain
Repair in the UK describe how they used a piezoelectric inkjet printer head
to expel glia cells and retinal ganglion cells that had been extracted from the retina
of a rat.
Though there was a large percentage of cells that were lost through sedimentation
in the fluid reservoir, those that were printed were "undamaged and sound".
The hope is one day to be able to 3D print retinal tissue for people suffering
degenerative diseases of the eye.
Story in Sydney Morning Herald here -
http://www.smh.com.au/technology/sci-tech/eye-cells-3dprinted-for-first-time-20131219-2zm75.html
Paper here in Biofabrication entitled "Adult rat retinal ganglion cells and glia can
be printed by piezoelectric inkjet printing" is open access -
http://iopscience.iop.org/1758-5090/6/1/015001/article
where researchers at the University of Cambridge John van Geest Centre for Brain
Repair in the UK describe how they used a piezoelectric inkjet printer head
to expel glia cells and retinal ganglion cells that had been extracted from the retina
of a rat.
Though there was a large percentage of cells that were lost through sedimentation
in the fluid reservoir, those that were printed were "undamaged and sound".
The hope is one day to be able to 3D print retinal tissue for people suffering
degenerative diseases of the eye.
Story in Sydney Morning Herald here -
http://www.smh.com.au/technology/sci-tech/eye-cells-3dprinted-for-first-time-20131219-2zm75.html
Paper here in Biofabrication entitled "Adult rat retinal ganglion cells and glia can
be printed by piezoelectric inkjet printing" is open access -
http://iopscience.iop.org/1758-5090/6/1/015001/article