Strategies in biomanufacturing
Abstract
Recent advances in additive manufacturing have allowed, even in a preliminary stage, 3D printing of biomaterials and/or cells. Each day, biomanufacturing process has been adapted to produce, in the future, different kinds of human tissues in a wide variety of shapes and structural complexities, which have specific biomechanical properties such as the vasculature characteristics, aiming biomodels creation that mimic tissues with parameters in accordance with real tissues. The big challenge in this area of knowledge takes place in developing models/biomodels representing more faithfully the required biological parameters. This will only be achieved with the integration of several researchers and multidisciplinary studies and techniques. Aiming a multidisciplinary group formation in additive manufacturing area, with focus in 3D printing of virtual and physical models that incorporates biological concepts, the Divisão de Tecnologias Tridimensionais (Division of Three-dimensional Technologies - DT3D), located in the Technology Center of Information Renato Archer (CTI) that responds to Ministry of Science, Technology and Innovation (MCTI) has been developing studies related to all stages of biomanufacturing process, integrating different strategies.
