Microfluidics for Biofabrication

TL;DR

This paper explores the use of microfluidic technology to reconstruct biological structures, aiming to leverage the inherent functions of living materials for biofabrication.

Contribution

It introduces microfluidic methods for biofabrication by reconstructing biological structures, highlighting a novel approach to integrating living materials into engineered systems.

Findings

Demonstrated microfluidic techniques for biological structure reconstruction

Showed potential for microfluidics to enhance biofabrication processes

Proposed a framework for using living materials in engineered systems

Abstract

Shoji Takeushi is professor in and the Director of the Center for International Research on Integrative Biomedical Systems (CIBiS), Institute of Industrial Science (IIS) at the University of Tokyo. Here he describes his attempts to use inherent function of living materials in engineered systems by reconstructing the biological structure using microfluidic technology.