A 3D printer that rapidly produces large batches of custom biological tissues could help make drug development faster and less costly.
Nanoengineers at the University of California San Diego developed the high-throughput bioprinting technology, which 3D prints with record speed – it can produce a 96-well array of living human tissue samples within 30 minutes.
Having the ability to rapidly produce such samples could accelerate high-throughput preclinical drug screening and disease modeling, the researchers said.
The process for a pharmaceutical company to develop a new drug can take up to 15 years and cost up to $2.6 billion. It generally begins with screening tens of thousands of drug candidates in test tubes. [Read more…] about Super productive 3D bioprinter could help speed up drug development