{"id":245669,"date":"2026-10-19T22:57:26","date_gmt":"2026-10-20T03:57:26","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2026\/10\/new-4d-biofabrication-technology-holds-promise-for-tissue-engineering-wound-healing"},"modified":"2026-10-19T22:57:26","modified_gmt":"2026-10-20T03:57:26","slug":"new-4d-biofabrication-technology-holds-promise-for-tissue-engineering-wound-healing","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2026\/10\/new-4d-biofabrication-technology-holds-promise-for-tissue-engineering-wound-healing","title":{"rendered":"New 4D biofabrication technology holds promise for tissue engineering, wound healing"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a class=\"aligncenter blog-photo\" href=\"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog.images\/new-4d-biofabrication-technology-holds-promise-for-tissue-engineering-wound-healing2.jpg\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p>If you\u2019ve ever created a snowflake by folding, cutting and unfolding a piece of paper, you\u2019ve practiced the art of kirigami. Like origami, kirigami has inspired innovations far beyond the elementary school classroom, with applications ranging from deployable structures for spacecraft to semiconductors.<\/p>\n<p>Researchers at the University of Illinois Chicago\u2019s College of Engineering have employed kirigami strategies to generate complex shapes that mimic tissue forms found in the human body. Their work has implications for tissue engineering and wound healing.<\/p>\n<p>The paper, \u201cA 4D Bio-Kirigami Strategy for Engineering Complex Tissue Curvatures,\u201d was <a href=\"https:\/\/www.cell.com\/cell-biomaterials\/fulltext\/S3050-5623(26)00269-2\" target=\"_blank\">published<\/a> in <i>Cell Biomaterials<\/i>. The authors included Kaelyn L. Gasvoda, Aixiang Ding, Zhangli Peng, Alexandria Sterenberg, Oju Jeon and Eben Alsberg.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>If you\u2019ve ever created a snowflake by folding, cutting and unfolding a piece of paper, you\u2019ve practiced the art of kirigami. Like origami, kirigami has inspired innovations far beyond the elementary school classroom, with applications ranging from deployable structures for spacecraft to semiconductors. Researchers at the University of Illinois Chicago\u2019s College of Engineering have employed [\u2026]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":427,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1902,11,1514],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-245669","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-bioengineering","category-biotech-medical","category-space-travel"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/245669","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\/427"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=245669"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/245669\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=245669"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=245669"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=245669"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}