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Printed 'bio-inks' can pattern multiple cell lineages from a single adult stem cell population A Pittsburgh-based research team has used an innovative inkjet system to print unique "bio-ink" patterns that directed adult muscle-derived stem cells from mice to differentiate into both muscle cells and bone cells. This is the first report of a system that can pattern the formation of multiple tissues from a single population of adult stem cells. Bioengineers from Carnegie Mellon University’s Robotics Institute and the Institute for Complex Engineered Systems teamed with stem cell biologists from the University of Pittsburgh School of Medicine and Children’s Hospital...

Your Old Inkjet Printer Could Aid Burn Victims Susannah Patton, CIO Dec. 2, 2004 Looking for a place to toss your old inkjet printers? A team of scientists working to create human tissue may have a good use for them. Inkjets that are ten years old, they say, are perfectly suited to create sheets of human skin and other tissue that one day may help burn victims and even manufacture organs. Vladimir Mironov, director of the Shared Tissue Engineering Laboratory at the Medical University of South Carolina, is one of the scientists who has rigged Hewlett-Packard and Canon inkjet printers...