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January 28, 2016

Acoustic tweezers provide much needed pluck for 3-D bioprinting
Pittsburgh PA (SPX) Jan 28, 2016
Researchers, including Carnegie Mellon University President Subra Suresh and collaborators Tony Jun Huang from the Pennsylvania State University and Ming Dao from MIT, have demonstrated that acoustic tweezers can be used to non-invasively move and manipulate single cells along three dimensions, providing a promising new method for 3-D bioprinting. Their findings are published in this week's issue of the Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences (PNAS). Multicellular structures within living ... read more

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