2025/04/05 by Davide Ribezzi, Pere Català, Cataldo Pignatelli +2 · 1 voice
Engineering · Medicine · Biochemistry, Genetics and Molecular Biology · #3D Printing in Biomedical Research #Pancreatic function and diabetes #Pluripotent Stem Cells Research
paper · doi:10.1016/j.tibtech.2025.03.005
openalex publication_date 2025/04/05 · openalex created_date 2025/10/10 · openalex updated_date 2026/07/22
Diabetes is a complex disease affecting over 500 million people worldwide. Traditional approaches, such as insulin delivery, are mainstay treatments, but do not cure the disease. Recent advances in biofabrication and synthetic biology offer new hope for the development of tissue constructs recapitulating salient organ functions. Here, we discuss recent progress in bioprinting a functional endocrine pancreas, ranging from cell sources to main advances in biomaterials. We review innovative areas for the development of this field, with a particular focus on the convergence of synthetic biology and cell engineering with bioprinting, which opens new avenues for developing advanced in vitro models and regenerative, transplantable grafts, with the potential to provide independence from exogenous insulin administration.