💡NTT develops a new method for artificially assembling minute biological tissues
Nippon Telegraph and Telephone Japan has developed a three-dimensional structure using only a biocompatible polymer thin film, encapsulates the cell within its structure, and cultures it for a long period of time, so that microscopic to centimeter-scale minute myocardium and nerve We succeeded in developing a method to reconstruct living tissue.
In this research, two types of polymer thin films, silk fibroin gel * 1 and parylene * 2, which have been widely used as materials for implantation in the body, are laminated and assembled into arbitrary three-dimensional structures according to the pattern shape and thickness We succeeded in fabricating a three-dimensional structure of a soft thin film.
If it becomes possible to freely prepare a three-dimensional structure with a material that is gentle to a living body and has flexibility, it is expected to be applied to a living body-embedded element that fits the surface shape of a living tissue or a flexible substrate for cell culture I will.
This achievement will be published online in the UK scientific journal “Scientific Reports” at 10 am (UK time) on 22nd December 2017.