The Billion Cell Construct: Will Three-Dimensional Printing Get Us There?

How structure relates to function—across spatial scales, from the single molecule to the whole organism—is a central theme in biology. Bioengineers, however, wrestle with the converse question: will function follow form? That is, we struggle to approximate the architecture of living tissues experime...

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Autor principal: Miller, Jordan S.
Formato: Online Artículo Texto
Lenguaje:English
Publicado: Public Library of Science 2014
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Acceso en línea:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC4061004/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/24937565
http://dx.doi.org/10.1371/journal.pbio.1001882
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spelling pubmed-40610042014-06-20 The Billion Cell Construct: Will Three-Dimensional Printing Get Us There? Miller, Jordan S. PLoS Biol Essay How structure relates to function—across spatial scales, from the single molecule to the whole organism—is a central theme in biology. Bioengineers, however, wrestle with the converse question: will function follow form? That is, we struggle to approximate the architecture of living tissues experimentally, hoping that the structure we create will lead to the function we desire. A new means to explore the relationship between form and function in living tissue has arrived with three-dimensional printing, but the technology is not without limitations. Public Library of Science 2014-06-17 /pmc/articles/PMC4061004/ /pubmed/24937565 http://dx.doi.org/10.1371/journal.pbio.1001882 Text en © 2014 Jordan S http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/ This is an open-access article distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution License, which permits unrestricted use, distribution, and reproduction in any medium, provided the original author and source are properly credited.
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