Little 3D print pen can also be worthy of! Or into the future of medical important help

Meilun learned that a small 3D pen can also be worthy of the use of! Or into the future of medical important help

3D printing pen must have no stranger it! It can be regarded as manual version of the 3D printer, although now you can already use plastic, resin and many other materials, but still mainly as a toy look. But recently, the Aikenhead Medical Discovery Center in St. Vincent Hospital, Melbourne, Australia, has lifted it to a new height, the bioprint pen called Biopen in the following figure.

It is understood that Biopen is developed by St. Vincent Hospital, University of Melbourne, and Wollongong University, the main material is the medical grade plastic and titanium metal. Where the former corresponds to its main body, the latter corresponding to its nozzle. It looks like a normal 3D pen, but the use of materials is not plastic or resin, but by the stem cells and hydrogels (the main ingredient is gelatin and hyaluronic acid, the role is to help stem cells survive and add value) Biological ink.

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Therefore, Biopen is not a toy, but can help doctors to treat muscle, bone, tendon and other parts of the injury a good tool. In practice, it will first be the biological ink from the nozzle into the wound, and then use ultraviolet light to cure, and thus play a therapeutic role. In fact, Scientists at the center of Aikenhead have used it to cure a sheep's knee successfully.

In this recently completed experiment, Biopen uses stem cells that are the only sheep that are injured sheep. Their role is to differentiate into chondrocytes, thus helping to regenerate the injured knee. It is worth mentioning that the use of Biopen-generated cartilage is much better than the cartilage generated with other standard techniques.

There is no doubt that the success of this experiment proved Biopen's ability, but also greatly encouraged the scientists at the center of Aikenhead. They hope that in the near future, Biopen can make the income of many people, including athletes, and this is becoming a reality, because Biopen's commercial process has begun. So I believe that soon, it will be able to enter the human experimental stage.