Future of Solid Organ Bioprinting: 4 D Technology and Zerogravity Printers

Abstract

Donor organ shortage has been the Achilles heel of organ transplantation programmes. Bioprinted organs promise to bridge the gap and provide succor to this group of patients. Fusion of disciplines relating to cell biology, bioinformatics, physics, geneticists and material science could well make commercially available human organs a reality in near future. Biofabricated tissues have made a promising entry in this region augmenting our hopes on this technology to provide human organs in future too. Key materials that would be the limiting links in this journey to commercial success and viability would be recombinant protein biolinks, maturation and other growth factors.