Science: 3-D Printed Materials Resemble Biological Tissues

VIDEO: Time-lapse movie of a flower-shaped printed droplet network spontaneously folding to form a hollow sphere. [Credit: Gabriel Villar, Alexander D. Graham and Hagan Bayley (University of Oxford)] A printed, three-dimensional material could one day mimic the behavior of cells in tissues, new research in the 5 April issue of the journal Science shows.The tissue-like materials developed by Gabriel Villar at Balliol College and colleagues have the consistency of soft rubber, with an elasticity similar to brain and fat tissues. . .

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