3D DIY Bio-printer: Bioengineering project

By ML -
3D bio-printers can be used to print biological materials such as gels, proteins and cells. Inspired by the BioCurious team, our group at Nanyang Technological University (NTU) Singapore assembled a 3D DIY bio-printer and explored the possibility of printing mammalian cells.

First, we assembled the printer following the manual from Instructables.








This is the DIY 3D bio-printer created by team at NTU Singapore.





We tested the bio-printer for printing alginate gels. Calcium chloride solution was dropped onto a culture dish containing 1%, 2%, 3% and 4% sodium alginate solution. We found that 1.5-2.0% alginate worked best in providing most consistency in printing. The picture below shows a test print using ink versus alginate hydrogel.

(Left) Letter 'N' printed in ink (Right) Letter 'N' printed in alginate
Scale bar: 1mm

Finally we showed that 3D gels could be printed using this DIY bio-printer platform, the picture below shows a printed gel with 200 layers of printing. And we also printed mammalian cells (HS5 stromal cells) using this DIY 3D bio-printer in alginate hdyrogel.

(Left) Printed 3D gel (Right) Mammalian cells printed with alginate hydrogel
Green - live cells; Red - dead cells 


Acknowledgements: This project was accomplished by Ernesto Irving Rivera Soto, Poon Ling Jun and Yeo Chee Wee, supervised by Drs. Mayasari Lim (SE3D Education) and Xu Chenjie (NTU)

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