Rice University Begins New Study of 3D Printed Bone Scaffolding

In the winter of 2016, we told you about researchers with Rice University, who used an OpenSLS 3D printer to develop 3D printed lattices for bone tissue engineering. The researchers began their work in late 2015, and now a new project with the 3D printed bone tissue scaffolding has begun. Rice bioengineer Antonios Mikos is leading the research team, and they've enhanced their original 3D printed scaffold, in an effort to make it more sophisticated, so they can better study how Ewing's sarcoma (ES, a pediatric bone cancer) cells respond to stimuli, such as shear stress (the force that tumors experience when viscous fluids flow through the bone). These scientists have concluded that a scaffold structure, whether it's natural or not, does in fact have an effect on how "cells express signaling proteins that help cancer grow." Read more at 3DPrint.com: https://3dprint.com/164483/3d-scaffo...or-generation/

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