The cutting-edge progress in bioprinting for biomedicine: principles, applications, and future perspectives

Abstract

Bioprinting is a highly promising application area of additive manufacturing technology that has been widely used in various fields, including tissue engineering, drug screening, organ regeneration, and biosensing. Its primary goal is to produce biomedical products such as artificial implant scaffolds, tissues and organs, and medical assistive devices through software-layered discrete and numerical control molding. Despite its immense potential, bioprinting technology still faces several challenges. It requires concerted efforts from researchers, engineers, regulatory bodies, and industry stakeholders are principal to overcome these challenges and unlock the full potential of bioprinting. This review systematically discusses bioprinting principles, applications, and future perspectives while also providing a topical overview of research progress in bioprinting over the past two decades. The most recent advancements in bioprinting are comprehensively reviewed here. First, printing techniques and methods are summarized along with advancements related to bioinks and supporting structures. Second, interesting and representative cases regarding the applications of bioprinting in tissue engineering, drug screening, organ regeneration, and biosensing are introduced in detail. Finally, the remaining challenges and suggestions for future directions of bioprinting technology are proposed and discussed.

Bioprinting is one of the most promising application areas of additive manufacturing technology that has been widely used in various fields. It aims to produce biomedical products such as artificial implant scaffolds, tissues and organs, and medical assistive devices. This review systematically discusses bioprinting principles, applications, and future perspectives, which provides a topical description of the research progress of bioprinting.

Keywords

bioprinting / biosensor / disease modeling / microfluidics / regenerative medicine

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