Microtissue Bioassembly for Tissue Regeneration

Dear Colleagues,

Bioassembly, also known as “bottom-up tissue engineering”, is an emerging technology to integrate micro-tissues (building blocks or modular tissues) to form a macro-tissue. The minimum fabrication units are preformed cell-containing building blocks with sizes large enough so that automated assembly can technologically be achieved.

As opposed to conventional top-down tissue engineering, bioassembly has the advantages of (i) easier to generate macro-tissues with repetitive architectures, (ii) generating a macro-tissue using different modules built from different types of cells, (iii) seeding cells at the densities that match the corresponding native tissues.

In this special issue, we invite original research articles and reviews presenting the advances in modular tissue generation, characterization and the technologies of assembling microtissues. The microtissues can be but are not limited to cellular aggregates/spheroids, organoids, cell sheets, and cell-incorporated biomaterial microspheres. Bioassembly technologies, from straightforward manual manipulation to an advanced automatic method, including bioprinting, are all welcome.

Dr. Zhixin Hui
Dr. Yonggang Pang
Prof. Dr. David Hay
Guest Editors

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• Bioassembly
• Modular Tissue Engineering
• Bioprinting
• Build blocks
• Microtissues