3D Bioprinting Strategies for Regeneration Tissues and Organs

Dear Colleagues,

I invite you to contribute to a Special Issue of the journal Applied Sciences, “3D Bioprinting Strategies for the Regeneration Tissues and Organs”, which aims to present recent developments in the field of 3D bioprinting in biology and medicine.

Biomaterials-based biofabrication methods have gained much attention in recent years. Among them, 3D bioprinting is a pioneering technology to facilitate the recapitulation of unique features of complex human tissues and organs with high process flexibility and versatility. Bioinks, combinations of printable hydrogel and cells, can be utilized to create 3D cell-printed constructs. The bioactive cues of bioinks directly trigger cells to induce tissue morphogenesis. Various printable hydrogels, such as gelatin, hyaluronic acid, collagen, alginate, and decellularized extracellular matrix-based biomaterials can exert synergistic effects in supporting human cells at any component by facilitating specific physiological properties.

In this Special Issue, we aim to discuss bioprinting technologies, bioprinting process, and bioinks able to recapitulate the inherent microenvironmental niche in 3D cell-printed constructs. The collection of articles can serve as a toolbox for biomedical engineers who want to understand the beneficial characteristics of the bioinks and a basic set of fundamental criteria for engineering functional human tissues and organs and its applications to tissue engineering and regenerative medicine.

I thus invite you to submit your research on these topics, in the form of original research papers, mini-reviews, and perspective articles.

Prof. Dr. Jinah Jang
Prof. Dr. Byoung Soo Kim
Guest Editors

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