Foldink 3D Bioprinting Technology

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2020: Mastering of bioprinting of tissues of the person

On August 4, 2020 it became known that the team of young physicians in Armenia mastered technology of cultivation of tissues of human body by means of bioprinting. Told about it in FoldInk company where such researches are conducted.

Armenia mastered bioprinting of tissues of the person

FoldInk based several doctors and recent graduates of the Yerevan medical university. They designed and assembled the bioprinter on which receive samples of different body tissues of the person, including cartilaginous.

In 2019 the first samples of the grown-up fabric were sent to the histologic analysis which showed that cartilaginous cages did not die in printing process, and survived. Researchers want to find out how long these fabrics will be able to live in an incubator where conditions are approximate to parameters of a human body. Meanwhile the fabrics received by bioprinting test in vitro, i.e. in laboratory, but not on live organisms. Around the world clinical trials are not carried out yet, but actively study opportunities for them.

However already for the beginning of August, 2020 with high probability it is possible to assume that the fabrics received by bioprinting will be compatible to the accepting organism as they do not support immunogene agents, i.e. have no proteins or other connections which our organism will apprehend as strangers and will begin to fight with them.

Such ghost effects, for example, often occur at organ transplantation: the immune system of the accepting organism fights against others heart or a liver in the same way as against viruses, perceiving them as a foreign matter.

At bioprinting of such problems does not arise, and in it its big advantage. Here the special biomaterials which do not have immunogene or allergic activity are used, – one of founders of Emmanuel Gandilyan company emphasizes.

To replace the printed bodies, it is necessary to work very long therefore it is impossible to lag behind achievements of world science. At the same time, achievements of the Armenian startup were already noted by the international professional community. The specialized online magazine 3dprinting.com included Armenia in the world 3D map bioprinting-and, having specified FoldInk.

The source emphasized that students, graduates and interns of the Yerevan medical university and also engineers are a part of a startup, 3D - designers and even marketing specialists^[1].

You See Also

• Cultivation of bodies (Biopechat, bioprinting)
• 3D - printing in medicine
• 3D - printing in medicine (world market)

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