Seoul’s Rural Development Administration (RDA) and Hallym University have collaborated to create a 3D Silk-Printing System that produces components suitable for use in vivo, i.e. within a living organism.
The silk ‘filament’ is made from the fibroin protein that also constitutes 75% of the silk naturally produced by spiders and larvae of members of the moth family. Fibroin is also used in the production of medical-grade objects due to its biocompatibility, and has been the subject of a recent study exploring its potential as preservative in food. What the RDA and Hallym have managed to do with fibroin is recreate the plates a...
SOURCE: 3dprintingindustry.com ( go on reading...)
