Forthcoming: Bioprinting - Principles and Applications

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NEW TITLES BESTSELLERS E-CATALOGUES Dear Subscriber, We are pleased to introduce the following title that may be of interest to you. If you like what you see, do recommend it to your library and colleagues. Bioprinting Principles and Applications by Chee Kai Chua & Wai Yee Yeong (NTU, Singapore) Apply this discount code to enjoy 20% off Discount Code: WSJAN20 | till 03 February 2015 hardcover: US$72 / £48 / S$55 US$57.60 / £38.40 / S$44 ebook: US$54 / £36 / S$41 US$43.20 / £28.80 / S$32.80 At labs around the world, researchers have been experimenting with bioprinting, first just to see whether it was possible to push cells through a printhead without killing them (in most cases it is), and then trying to make cartilage, bone, skin, blood vessels, small bits of liver and other tissues. There are other ways to try to ¡°engineer¡± tissue ¡ª one involves creating a scaffold out of plastics or other materials and adding cells to it. In theory, at least, a bioprinter has advantages in manipulating control of the placement of cells and other components to mimic natural structures. FREE SAMPLE CHAPTER(S) Table of Contents (289 KB) Foreword (41 KB) Chapter 1: Introduction to Tissue Engineering (434 KB) You may also be interested in: 3D Printing and Additive Manufacturing Principles and Applications Fourth Edition of Rapid Prototyping 4th Edition Lasers in 3D Printing and Manufacturing Mathematical Methods and Models in Composites Smoothed Point Interpolation Methods G Space Theory and Weakened Weak Forms