Goeun Lim, et al. • 3-D Printing in Organ Transplantation HMR 3-D Printing in Organ Transplantation Goeun Lim1, Dongho Choi1, Eric B. Richardson2 1Department of Surgery, Hanyang University College of Medicine, Seoul; 2Graduate School of Biomedical Science and Engineering, Hanyang University College of Medicine, Seoul, Korea Hanyang Med Rev 2014;34:158-164 http://dx.doi.org/10.7599/hmr.2014.34.4.158 pISSN 1738-429X eISSN 2234-4446 Recently, regenerative medicine utilizing tissue manufacturing has been a creative topic of Correspondence to: Dongho Choi Department of Surgery, Hanyang Medical study, offering promise for resolving the gap between insufficient organ supply and trans- Center, 222 Wangsimni-ro, Seongdong-gu, plantation needs. Moreover, 3D generation of functional organs is seen as the main hope Seoul 133-792, Korea to resolve these issues that will be a major advancement in the field over the next genera- Tel: +82-2-2290-8449 Fax: +82-2-2281-0224 tion. Organ printing is the 3D construction of functional cellular tissue that can replace or- E-mail:
[email protected] gans made by additive biofabrication with computational technology. Its advantages offer rapid prototyping (RP) methods for fabricating cells and adjunctive biomaterials layer by Received 25 August 2014 layer for manufacturing 3D tissue structures. There is growing interest in applying stem cell Revised 26 September 2014 Accepted 10 October 2014 research to bio-printing. Recently several bio-printing methods have been developed that accumulate organized 3D structures of living cells by inkjet, extrusion, and laser based This is an Open Access article distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution printing systems.