The Australian 3D bioprinting community is growing.

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Thanks to their pioneering technological innovations, collaborations between researchers and healthcare, and support from government initiatives, advances in biotechnology may make manufacturing living structures a reality.

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3D printing body parts is quickly becoming the next dreamt of step in organ transplantation, since harvesting stem cells from a transplant recipient and printing them into a replacement organ could help bypass complications associated with organ transplants, such as year-long waits for a suitable donor or rejection of the new organ. To this end, back in 2016, a laboratory was created to focus on building biological structures or body parts that require repair using living cells, the BioFab3D lab.

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Located at St Vincent’s Hospital in the Australian city of Melbourne, it is making science fiction a reality. BioFab3D is Australia’s first biomedical, engineering and robotics center. A not-for-profit initiative and collaboration between St Vincent’s Hospital […]

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