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IBEC recently became home to the first 3D bioprinter in Catalonia, which promises to open up exciting new avenues in tissue and organ regeneration.\u00a0Researchers from this center\u00a0have been exploring the possibilities of using the new technology to already improve their processes and methods.\u00a0Actualment els cient\u00edfics de l’institut estan explorant les possibilitats que ofereix la nova tecnologia per millorar els seus processos i m\u00e8todes.\u00a0En\u00a0una col\u00b7laboraci\u00f3 amb la Universitat Pompeu Fabra\u00a0(UPF), el CINVESTAV-Monterrey, a M\u00e8xic, i la Universitat de Washington, han desenvolupat una nova forma de produir dispositius microflu\u00eddics \u2013 sistemes en qu\u00e8 obtenen baixos volums de fluids<\/p>\n

In a collaboration with the UPF, the CINVESTAV-Monterrey in Mexico, and the University of Washington, IBEC scientists developed a new way of producing microfluidic devices \u2013 systems in which low volumes of fluids are processed.<\/p>\n

These are crucial tools in many areas of biomedical research, such as DNA analysis, lab-on-a-chip technology, and as a system that allows cell biologists to control the complete cellular environment.<\/p>\n

Published in\u00a0Lab on a Chip\u00a0(doi:\u00a010.1039\/C6LC00153J<\/a>), the work describes a major improvement in the way microfluidics systems can be produced. To date, the majority have been moulded in poly(dimethylsiloxane), or PDMS, by a method called soft lithography. Although PDMS offers the requisite properties for microfluidics systems \u2013 it\u2019s biocompatible, elastomeric, transparent, gas-permeable, inexpensive, and copyright-free \u2013 the technique is nonetheless slow and difficult.<\/p>\n

\nA huge advance towards being able to produce human-scale tissues\u00a0<\/strong>
\n\u00a0<\/p>\n

\u201cWith this new biocompatible resin and 3D printing process, we avoid the drawbacks of PDMS devices, which as well as being tedious to make, were prone to assembly failures and difficult to disseminate to research and clinical settings,\u201d explains IBEC\u2019s director Josep Samitier, whose PhD student, Luis G. Rigat, did a research internship at the University of Washington to learn from researchers already working with 3D printing and bring his new knowledge back to IBEC. \u201cBy using stereolithography, which is automated, assembly-free, cheaper and faster, we also improved the fabrication procedure, which used to be limited to simple, layered designs. Now we can make far more complex 3D structures.\u201d The new process can also be applied in other areas, such as in the production of non-microfluidic biomedical devices.<\/p>\n

As well as already beginning to transform the way researchers work by offering improved methods such as this one, 3D printers \u2013 and specifically 3D bioprinters, like the new one at IBEC \u2013 offer a fast, high-throughput way to produce constructs such as scaffolds or implants with cell function and viability preserved, so they represent a huge advance towards being able to produce human-scale tissues with structural integrity.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

IBEC<\/a> Director Josep Samitier and the Technology Transfer unit introduced IBEC\u2019s 3D bioprinting capabilities at the first\u00a0IN(3D)USTRY: From Needs to Solutions<\/a>\u00a0event, which was held at Fira Barcelona last week. IBEC\u2019s 3D bioprinter is the only one offering the level of precision and characteristics requred for regenerative medicine purposes in southern Europe, and one of very few on the continent. It promises to put IBEC \u2013based at Barcelona Science Park (PCB)\u2013 at the forefront of a new revolution in regenerative medicine by allowing researchers to add biological properties to implanted tissues such as bone, and may eventually be able to manufacture entire organs for transplantation.<\/p>\n

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