{"id":142177,"date":"2022-07-14T00:23:28","date_gmt":"2022-07-14T05:23:28","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2022\/07\/scientists-develop-new-biohybrid-composite-for-3d-printing-lifelike-artificial-skin"},"modified":"2022-07-14T00:23:28","modified_gmt":"2022-07-14T05:23:28","slug":"scientists-develop-new-biohybrid-composite-for-3d-printing-lifelike-artificial-skin","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2022\/07\/scientists-develop-new-biohybrid-composite-for-3d-printing-lifelike-artificial-skin","title":{"rendered":"Scientists develop new \u2018biohybrid composite\u2019 for 3D printing lifelike artificial skin"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a class=\"aligncenter blog-photo\" href=\"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog.images\/scientists-develop-new-biohybrid-composite-for-3d-printing-lifelike-artificial-skin.jpg\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Researchers at <a href=\"https:\/\/www.cornell.edu\/\">Cornell University<\/a> have come up with a novel biomaterial that can be used to create artificial skin capable of mimicking the behavior of natural human tissues.<\/p>\n<p>Thanks to its unique composition, made up of collagen mixed with a \u2018zwitterionic\u2019 hydrogel, the team\u2019s biohybrid composite is said to be soft and biocompatible, but flexible enough to withstand continued distortion. While the scientists\u2019 R&amp;D project remains ongoing, they say their bio-ink could one day be used as a basis for 3D printing scaffolds from patients\u2019 cells, which effectively heal wounds in-situ.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cUltimately, we want to create something for regenerative medicine purposes, such as a piece of scaffold that can withstand some initial loads until the tissue fully regenerates,\u201d said Nikolaos Bouklas, one of the study\u2019s co-lead authors. \u201cWith this material, you could 3D print a porous scaffold with cells that could eventually create the actual tissue around the scaffold.\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Researchers at Cornell University have come up with a novel biomaterial that can be used to create artificial skin capable of mimicking the behavior of natural human tissues. Thanks to its unique composition, made up of collagen mixed with a \u2018zwitterionic\u2019 hydrogel, the team\u2019s biohybrid composite is said to be soft and biocompatible, but flexible [\u2026]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":662,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1489,11,1499,269],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-142177","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-3d-printing","category-biotech-medical","category-cyborgs","category-life-extension"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/142177","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/662"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=142177"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/142177\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=142177"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=142177"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=142177"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}