Biography Shoji Takeuchi received his B.E., M.E., and Dr. Eng. degrees in mechanical engineering from the University of Tokyo, Tokyo, Japan in 1995, 1997, and 2000, respectively. He is currently a professor in and the Director of the Center for International Research on Integrative Biomedical Systems (CIBiS), Institute of Industrial Science (IIS) at the University of Tokyo. He has authored more...

Acknowledgements Chapter 1: Introduction 1.1 1.2 1.3 1.4 1.5 BioConstructs Innovation in the use of computation and digital fabrication methods Collaboration with scientific community Bio-inspired design and biofabrication Thesis structure Chapter 2: The Polypterus study 2.

Emerging opportunities are placing greater demands on device fabrication: next-generation microelectronics will need minimum features of less than 100 nm, high-throughput drug screening will require facile methods to incorporate sensitive biological components into microelectromechanical systems (MEMS), and implantable devices will need to be built from biocompatible materials. Increasingly, th...

The growing occurrence of bone disorders and the increase in aging population have resulted in the need for more effective therapies to meet this request. Bone tissue engineering strategies, by combining biomaterials, cells, and signaling factors, are seen as alternatives to conventional bone grafts for repairing or rebuilding bone defects. Indeed, skeletal tissue engineering has not yet achiev...

François-Damien Delapierre, Guillaume Mottet, Vélan Taniga, Julie Boisselier, Jean-Louis Viovy, et al.. High throughput micropatterning of interspersed cell arrays using capillary assembly This content has been downloaded from IOPscience. Please scroll down to see the full text. High throughput micropatterning of interspersed cell arrays using capillary assembly. Biofabrication, 2017, 9 (1), pp...

Department of Materials Engineering – DEMA, Faculty of Mechanical Engineering – FEM, State University of Campinas – UNICAMP, P.O. Box 6122, CEP 13083-970, Campinas, SP, Brazil National Institute of Science and Technology in Biofabrication – INCT BIOFABRIS, Campinas, SP, Brazil Instituto de Engenharia Biomédica – INEB, CEP 4150-180, Porto, Portugal Departamento de Engenharia Metalúrgica e Materi...

We present a new approach which aims to translate freeform biofabrication into the surgical field, while staying true to the practical constraints of the operating theatre. Herein we describe the development of a handheld biofabrication tool, dubbed the 'biopen', which enables the deposition of living cells and biomaterials in a manual, direct-write fashion. A gelatin-methacrylamide/hyaluronic ...