IB3 Article notes

The article talks about a research group that is researching the problem of not being able to get transplants or make prosthetics for people.  They solved this problem by creating their own transplants or you could say bioprosthetics which is capable of growing and can be easily integrated into the body and will be accepted because it can be made from the cells of the person they are making the transplant for. This would also solve the problem of having to figure out how to help the immune system accept the transplant because it will be made from their own cells. This experiment makes more complex structures that are made of different types of cells rather than just one and this is done by printing two scaffolds in the same structure and the scaffolds are filled with 2 different types of cells.

3D printing in this article is very similar to normal 3D printing of polymers but it is more complex because of the integration of cells in the structure that will grow within the structure and eventually will grow into the complex structure they wanted it to form. These improvements in bioprinting will improve the medical community in the way that transplants and prosthetics will be much more readily available and the chance of rejection will be highly reduced if not eliminated.

There are ideas in the paper that will not easily be understood without a little research back into the topic and prior knowledge is assumed for some parts. I feel like i had some of the prior knowledge that was required in the paper because of my prior internship in work that is very similar to this and i feel that the knowledge that is needed to understand most of what is going on in the article is easily learned but maybe not for some of the more technical parts.