1/2 images Neurons Connections are growing between the neurons inside different buckyballs. (Copyright: Stanford University) Connections are growing between the neurons inside different buckyballs. (Copyright: Stanford University)
1/2 images Neurons Connections are growing between the neurons inside different buckyballs. (Copyright: Stanford University) Connections are growing between the neurons inside different buckyballs. (Copyright: Stanford University) - Using microscopically fine 3D printing technologies from TU Wien (Vienna) and sound waves used as tweezers at Stanford University (California), tiny networks of neurons have been created. Microscopically small cages can be produced at TU Wien (Vienna). Their grid openings are only a few micrometers in size, making them ideal for holding cells and allowing living tissue to grow in a very specific shape. This new field of research is called "Biofabrication". In a collaboration with Stanford University, nerve cells have now been introduced into spherical cage structures using acoustic bioprinting technology, so that multicellular nerve tissue can develop there.
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