3D printing of skin has been done by various scientists across the globe , but none have shown an active living skin being 3D printed, until now.

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Indian origin professor of chemical and biological engineering Pankaj Karande and his team at Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute have developed a way to 3D print living skin with complete blood vessels.

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Pankaj, who is also a biological engineering member of the Centre for Biotechnology and Interdisciplinary Studies says,

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“Right now, whatever is available as a clinical product is more like a fancy Band-Aid. It provides some accelerated wound healing, but eventually, it just falls off; it never really integrates with the host cells.”

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This is because there is no presence of a functioning vascular system in the skin grafts. Karande and his team have been to bring vasculature and finally figured out that if they add key elements like human endothelial cells […]

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