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TRENDS IN BIOTECHNOLOGY
Volume 34, Issue 9, Pages 689-699Publisher
ELSEVIER SCIENCE LONDON
DOI: 10.1016/j.tibtech.2016.04.006
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- AstarSTAR Graduate Academy
- NTU Start-up Grant
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Bioprinting provides a fully automated and advanced platform that facilitates the simultaneous and highly specific deposition of multiple types of skin cells and biomaterials, a process that is lacking in conventional skin tissue-engineering approaches. Here, we provide a realistic, current overview of skin bioprinting, distinguishing facts from myths. We present an in-depth analysis of both current skin bioprinting works and the cellular and matrix components of native human skin. We also highlight current limitations and achievements, followed by design considerations and a future outlook for skin bioprinting. The potential of bioprinting with converging opportunities in biology, material, and computational design will eventually facilitate the fabrication of improved tissue-engineered (TE) skin constructs, making bioprinting skin an impending reality.
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