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Teknologi baru pembuatan jaringan,
suatu hari nanti mungkin dapat membuat organ
Sebuah perangkat baru untuk membangun jaringan yang besar dari komponen
hidup microtissues tiga dimensi yang meminjam
ide dari manufaktur elektronik.....Bio-Pick, Place, and perfuse adalah langkah menuju suatu hari nanti membuat
organ secara keseluruhan.....read more
Sebuah perangkat baru untuk membangun jaringan yang besar dari komponen
hidup microtissues tiga dimensi yang meminjam
ide dari manufaktur elektronik.....Bio-Pick, Place, and perfuse adalah langkah menuju suatu hari nanti membuat
organ secara keseluruhan.....read more
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New technology
makes tissues, someday maybe organs
Date:
December 22, 2014
Source:
Brown University
Summary:
A new device for
building large tissues from living components of three-dimensional microtissues
borrows on ideas from electronics manufacturing. The Bio-Pick, Place, and
Perfuse is a step toward someday making whole organs.
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A new instrument could
someday build replacement human organs the way electronics are assembled today:
with precise picking and placing of parts.
In this case, the parts are not resistors and capacitors, but 3-D
microtissues containing thousands to millions of living cells that need a
constant stream of fluid to bring them nutrients and to remove waste. The new
device is called 'BioP3' for pick, place, and perfuse. A team of researchers
led by Jeffrey Morgan, a Brown University bioengineer, and Dr. Andrew Blakely,
a surgery fellow at Rhode Island Hospital and the Warren Alpert Medical School,
introduces BioP3 in a new paper in the journal Tissue Engineering Part
C.
Because it allows assembly of larger structures from small living
microtissue components, Morgan said, future versions of BioP3 may finally make
possible the manufacture of whole organs such as livers, pancreases, or
kidneys.
"For us it's exciting because it's a new approach to building tissues,
potentially organs, layer by layer with large, complex living parts," said
Morgan, professor of molecular pharmacology, physiology and bBiotechnology.
"In contrast to 3-D bioprinting that prints one small drop at a time, our
approach is much faster because it uses pre-assembled living building parts
with functional shapes and a thousand times more cells per part."
Morgan's research has long focused on making individual microtissues in
various shapes such as spheres, long rods, donut rings and honeycomb slabs. He
uses a novel micromolding technique to direct the cells to self-assemble and
form these complex shapes. He is a founder of the Providence startup company
MicroTissues Inc., which sells such culture-making technology.
Now, the new paper shows, there is a device to build even bigger tissues by
combining those living components.
"This project was particularly interesting to me since it is a novel
approach to large-scale tissue engineering that hasn't been previously
described," Blakely said.
The BioP3 prototype
The BioP3, made mostly from parts available at Home Depot for less than
$200, seems at first glance to be a small, clear plastic box with two chambers:
one side for storing the living building parts and one side where a larger
structure can be built with them. It's what rests just above the box that
really matters: a nozzle connected to some tubes and a microscope-like stage
that allows an operator using knobs to precisely move it up, down, left, right,
out and in.
The plumbing in those tubes allows a peristaltic pump to create fluid
suction through the nozzle's finely perforated membrane. That suction allows
the nozzle to pick up, carry and release the living microtissues without doing
any damage to them, as shown in the paper.
Once a living component has been picked, the operator can then move the
head from the picking side to the placing side to deposit it precisely. In the
paper, the team shows several different structures Blakely made including a
stack of 16 donut rings and a stack of four honeycombs. Because these are
living components, the stacked microtissues naturally fuse with each other to
form a cohesive whole after a short time.
Because each honeycomb slab had about 250,000 cells, the stack of four
achieved a proof-of-concept, million-cell structure more than 2 millimeters
thick.
That's not nearly enough cells to make an organ such as a liver (an adult's
has about 100 billion cells), Morgan said, but the stack did have a density of
cells consistent with that of human organs. In 2011, Morgan's lab reported that
it could make honeycomb slabs 2 centimeters wide, with 6 million cells each.
Complex stacks with many more cells are certainly attainable, Morgan said.
If properly nurtured, stacks of these larger structures could
hypothetically continue to grow, Morgan said. That's why the BioP3 keeps a
steady flow of nutrient fluid through the holes of the honeycomb slabs to
perfuse nutrients and remove waste. So far, the researchers have shown that
stacks survive for days.
In the paper the team made structures with a variety of cell types
including H35 liver cells, KGN ovarian cells, and even MCF-7 breast cancer
cells (building large tumors could have applications for testing of
chemotherapeutic drugs or radiation treatments). Different cell types can also
be combined in the microtissue building parts. In 2010, for example, Morgan
collaborated on the creation of an artificial human ovary unifying three cell
types into a single tissue.
Improvements underway
Because version 1.0 of the BioP3 is manually operated, it took Blakely
about 60 minutes to stack the 16 donut rings around a thin post, but he and
Morgan have no intention of keeping it that way.
In September, Morgan received a $1.4-million, three-year grant from the
National Science Foundation in part to make major improvements, including
automating the movement of the nozzle to speed up production.
"Since we now have the NSF grant, the Bio-P3 will be able to be
automated and updated into a complete, independent system to precisely assemble
large-scale, high-density tissues," Blakely said.
In addition, the grant will fund more research into living building parts
-- how large they can be made and how they will behave in the device over
longer periods of time. Those studies include how their shape will evolve and
how they function as a stack.
"We are just at the beginning of understanding what kinds of living
parts we can make and how they can be used to design vascular networks within
the structures," Morgan said. "Building an organ is a grand challenge
of biomedical engineering. This is a significant step in that direction."
Brown has sought a patent on the BioP3.
In addition to Blakely and Morgan, the paper's other authors are biology
graduate student Kali Manning and Anubhav Tripathi, profesor of engineering,
who co-directs Brown's Center for Biomedical Engineering with Morgan.
The National Institutes of Health (grant T32 GM065085-09) and the NSF
(grant CBET-1428092) have supported the research.
Story Source:
The above story is based on materials provided by Brown University. Note: Materials may be edited
for content and length.
Journal Reference:
1. Andrew M. Blakely, Kali L. Manning,
Anubhav Tripathi, Jeffrey R. Morgan. Bio-Pick, Place, and Perfuse: A
New Instrument for 3D Tissue Engineering.Tissue Engineering Part C:
Methods, 2014; 141220021855001 DOI:10.1089/ten.TEC.2014.0439