Bioprinting enters High School courses

Volumetric #bioprinting enters high school textbooks in the Netherlands! Exciting news!

Our lab's work on light-based #biofabrication and patterning of human organoids, and in particular our recent work on liver engineering, is now part of a Biology textbook at the VWO 6 level (17-18 years old students, in the last year before going to University).

This is an exciting outcome to increase awareness and critical thinking on new and increasingly important technologies for biological research, and to highlight hope while also informing with realism on the steps still need to make #bioprinting a future clinical reality. In a rapidly evolving world, in which technological progress advances at increasingly fast rate, it is especially important that new progresses, and their strengths and limitations are discussed with the broadest community possible.

Thanks particularly to Stephan van Duin and the Regenerative Medicine Center Utrecht  who made this #scicomm connection possible, and to Sammy Florczak for the impressive 3D drawings that made it into the book, part of the societal impact of the work from our project funded by the European Research Council (Horizon 2020 research and innovation programme, grant agreement No. 949806, VOLUME-BIO).

The book, "Biologie voor Jou" is published by Malmberg. Link to the webpage of the publisher (Dutch only): https://www.malmberg.nl/voortgezet-onderwijs/ondersteuning-inspiratie/ontwikkelingen/releases/release-biologie-voor-jou-havovwo-bovenbouw.htm

Link to the paper from which this project started: https://advanced.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/full/10.1002/adma.202110054

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