Going to #ESB2026 in Antwerp? Check the talks of @bartolfkopp.bsky.social in the next days to see the lates advancements of #MEW #biomaterials and #volumetric #bioprinitng

another publication is finally ready to be shared with everyone! Fabrication and Characterization of #MeltElectrowritten Hierarchical PCL Scaffolds for Conjunctival #TissueEngineering doi.org/10.1021/acsb...

Are stem cells the key to advance biofabrication "from shape to function"? The goal is to develop a 3d environment that could exploit the potential of cell-derived mesodermal progenitor cells to produce vascular constructs while controlling geomery advanced.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1002/...

Generation of Self‐Organizing Macrovascular Constructs by Bioprinting Human iPSC‐Derived Mesodermal Progenitor Cells

Vascularization remains a major obstacle in tissue engineering. Here, we introduce a bioprinting strategy to generate centimeter-scale, self-organizing “mother vessel” constructs from iPSC-derived hi...

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Bioprinting organs, the perfect #scifi 👩🏼‍🔬 tool, is it just fiction or reality already??? For this #StarWarsDay we suggest reading this review where we try to answer if #Bioprinting Organs is Science or Fiction. May the 4th be with you! advanced.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1002/...

The question still remains: #Bioprinting organs, #science or #fiction? 🤔 Back from TERMIS and got the best news Me and Nicoletta Murenu’s cover is finally online with the latest issue of Wiley Advanced Healthcare Materials Here the related article : advanced.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1002/...

We had a wonderful time at #TERMISEU2026! The organization and location were top tier and the topics and discussussions super impactful and enriching for all of us. Thanks to the organizers for doing a great job @eutermis.bsky.social #TERMIS #TissueEngineering #RegenerativeMedicine #Biofabrication

REVIEW Aptamer-Based Delivery Systems for VEGF and NGF Modulation in Ocular Therapies 👀 Based on currently used experimental and clinical approaches for the delivery or inhibition of growth factors, we highlight aptamers as promising therapeutic tools advanced.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1002/...

Aptamer‐Based Delivery Systems for VEGF and NGF Modulation in Ocular Therapies

Aptamer-based delivery systems targeting NGF and VEGF hold significant potential for precise and sustained treatment of complex diseases affecting both the anterior and posterior segments of the eye....

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Green #bioprinting: photosynthetically active prints with light-scattering microalgae We demonstrate the integration of #microalgae into #VolumetricBP for implementation in cascade-based processes www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti... collaboration with: @biofabrication-dd.bsky.social

Green volumetric bioprinting: building photosynthetically active structures with light-scattering microalgae

Microalgae are robust microorganisms with versatile metabolic functions, including oxygen generation, making them crucial components in wastewater tre…

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I'm in Palma this week for #TERMISEU2026 catch me at poster 13 today or tomorrow, excited to see everyone

we present a novel approach combining #extrusionbased #bioprinting with static mixing, using DLP printed mixing units to fabricate gradients. 2 passive mixing geometries, sinusoidal and obstacle-based, are designed and benchmarked against commercially available static mixers. doi.org/10.1002/admt...

Tunable 3D‐Printed Static Mixers for Gradient Bioprinting With High Cell Viability

The fabrication of native tissue-like structures with gradual transitions in material properties, cell types, and growth factors remains a major challenge in biofabrication due to the lack of suitabl...

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Next week we are in Palma de Mallorca for TERMIS-EU 2026 🏝️ FMZ 💥 and Vasc-on-Demand 🩸 are going to be there with several posters and talks 👩🏼‍🔬. Here you can find the information from our presenters. #Biofabrication #RegenerativeMedicine #TissueEngineering #TERMISEU2026 @eutermis.bsky.social

Our new publication on Bioactive Materials aims to answer what is the effect of nanofibrillar scaffolds (MEF) on adipose #stemcells, can they differenciate toward #muscle? work led by @camillamussoni.bsky.social @taufiqahmad.bsky.social www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti...

Muscle-fiber-inspired nanofibrillar microbundles induce myogenic differentiation in human adipose-derived stem cells

Skeletal muscle function relies on uniaxially organized myofibers, whose aligned extracellular matrix provides instructive topographical cues that reg…

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Generation of Self-Organizing Macrovascular Constructs by Bioprinting human iPSC-Derived Mesodermal Progenitor Cells https://www.biorxiv.org/content/10.64898/2026.03.16.712040v1

What if organs could be printed? 🧬 3D bioprinting is advancing fast. To help bring this technology safely into healthcare, @ec.europa.eu JRC, CEN and CENELEC gathered 56 experts from 17 countries to explore standardization needs. Read the report now! 👇 lnkd.in/evkHaR2p

Our consortium CRCTRR225 has a brand new LinkdIn page: go follow it to see the latest updates from our research #biofabrication www.linkedin.com/company/crc-...

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CRC/TRR225 | 37 followers on LinkedIn. From the fundamentals of biofabrication towards functional tissue models | The Collaborative Research Center/Transregio 225 explores the fundamentals of biofabri...

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For this #InternationalWomen'sDay 2026 we want to celebrate the women of #FMZ and recognize their contributions to the department and to #science. 👩🏼‍🔬 Here an highlight of some recent publications led by the women of FMZ:

🚨Our hydrogel-based tubular airway-on-chip (“airway-on-tube”) is now published in Advanced Materials! 🔗 advanced.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1002/... Thanks to collaborators in Cambridge & Würzburg and to DFG for funding my independent postdoc fellowship.

"From Fiber Architecture to Functional Attachment: A Clinically Relevant, Mechanically Tunable #Cardiac Patch" is now published in Advanced Materials, huge collaboration from the EU "Brav3" project: advanced.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1002/...

We are happy to share with you this new publication: Hydrogel-Based Airway-on-Tube With Perfusable Endothelial Lumen and Outward Epithelialization @bartolfkopp.bsky.social provided tubular MEW scaffolds as support for a hydrogel based lung-on-a-chip 🫁 advanced.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1002/...

We just published our work on light-free cross-linking of #polyoxazoline -based #microgels for a safe #cellEncapsulation. Congratulations to projects A06 and A02 from our CRC #TRR225 onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1002/...

Check this new #biomaterial for #MeltElectrowriting out! 💥 Poly(Alkylene Terephthalate)s #PAT is a shape memory polymer with tuneable thermo mechanical properties, collaboration with the University of Ghent advanced.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1002/...

A glimpse in our new format: #ScientificBrunch! With the group expanding over three buildings we want to mix the groups up, chat and catch up with FMZ scientists of al levels over coffee and pastry! Lay the groundwork for #communitybuilding, #collaboration and #exchange of ideas and knowledge #FMZ

Gradients are everywhere! especially in our #tissues and organs, so when talking about #hierarchy and #biomimicry it is important that our technologies are able to reproduce such structures. analyticalsciencejournals.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1002/...

I was happy to contribute to our new paper from #CRCTRR225 project C06 This work encompasses the collaborative spirit of the consortium as 5 projects were involved providing different bioinks to test for compatibility with glomerular spheroids for 3D cultures onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1002/...

Biocompatibility of Hydrogels for Glomerular 3D Co‐Culture: A Comparative Analysis

GelAGE and recombinant spider silk hydrogels are evaluated for glomerular 3D co-culture. GelAGE combines ease of handling with excellent biocompatibility and viscoelasticity, making it a promising sc...

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What a better way to start the year with a brand new publication! Check this new review on "Magnesium Phosphate Minerals and Cements as Bone Substitute Materials" now available on Acta Biomaterialia. www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti...

Magnesium Phosphate Minerals and Cements as Bone Substitute Materials

When bone defects surpass a critical threshold in size, they typically necessitate intervention through either autologous bone grafting or the use of …

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We started the year with an amazing time at the Alpine Winter School of #Biofabrication. Thanks for the organization to Aleksandr Ovsianikov and Julia Fernández-Pérez, we had the opportunity to listen to and engage in discussions with leading voices in our field from all over the world.

new publication out before the end of the year: the synthesis and application of a star-shaped poly(2-methyloxazoline) functionalized with boronic acid derivatives, designed to form stable #hydrogels in the presence of poly(vinyl alcohol) under physiological conditions. pubs.acs.org/doi/full/10....

The whole FMZ #Biofabrication wishes everyone a happy and peaceful holiday time! 2025 was a successful year for us and we are thankful for all our employees and students bringing their enthusiasm and passion for science. Looking forward to what next year will bring with a lot of new beginnings!

Christmas 🎄 is already in the air! We teamed up with all other groups from the dentistry clinic 🦷 and set up our booth at the local craft bazaar ✂️ to raise money for a good cause ✨ We are had a very successful evening of coming together with all coworkers of the clinic for something important.

We have a new publication! We gave melt #electrofibrillation #MEW a twist for #tendon #TissueEngineering and adaptable stretchable #collagen mimicking structures. Check the cool pictures and read the publication on Advanced Healthcare #Materials: advanced.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1002/...

Giving It a Twist: One‐Step Fabrication of Aligned Biomimetic Yarn Scaffolds via Rotational Melt Electrofibrillation

Due to its multifunctionality, replicating the fibrillar and supramolecular architecture of Collagen I is gaining increasing priority in regenerative medicine. Using rotational Melt Electrofibrillati...

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