A method of treating a lesion in a gastrointestinal tract and an injectate system are provided. The method includes injecting a crosslinkable gel into a first tissue layer, the crosslinkable gel increasing a volume of the first tissue layer. The method also includes providing a crosslinker and resecting a portion of a first tissue layer having the increased volume away from a second tissue layer creating an exposed region in a remaining portion of the first layer and leaving a portion of the gel covering at least a portion of the exposed region. The injectate system includes a crosslinkable gel and a crosslinker where the crosslinkable gel and the crosslinker form a crosslinked gel having a compressive modulus of about 10-500 kPa.

A bio-ink composition comprises a plurality of bio-block, in which the bio-blocks can serve as basic building blocks in cell-based bioprinting. The bio-blocks, pharmaceutical compositions comprising the bio-blocks, methods of preparing artificial tissues, tissue progenitors, or multi-dimensional constructs, and methods of preparing the bio-blocks are also provided. The bio-blocks, and the multi-dimensional constructs, artificial tissues, and tissue progenitors comprising the bio-blocks or prepared by the methods described herein are useful for tissue engineering, in vitro research, stem cell differentiation, in vivo research, drug screening, drug discovery, tissue regeneration, and regenerative medicine.

Provided is a magnetically actuated microscaffold for minimal invasive osteochondral regeneration. More particularly, provided is a composition for cartilage regeneration, a microscaffold for cartilage regeneration, in which magnetic particles and cartilage regeneration cells are loaded on the surface of or within a 3-dimensional porous microstructure composed of a biodegradable polymer and having a diameter of 200-300 μm; and a microscaffold for bone regeneration, in which magnetic particles and bone regeneration cells are loaded on the surface of or within a 3-dimensional porous microstructure composed of a biodegradable polymer and having a diameter of 700-900 μm.

A method for enhancing activity selected from the group consisting of cytokine production capacity, proliferation capacity, engraftment capacity, angiogenesis-inducing capacity, and tissue regeneration capacity in a graft, particularly in a sheet-shaped cell culture containing a somatic cell, involves incubating the graft at a temperature of 25° C. or higher.

The present invention relates to an ultra-thin film silk fibroin/collagen composite implant for tissue engineering and a manufacturing method therefor. The ultra-thin film silk fibroin/collagen silk fibroin/collagen composite implant according to the present invention has no cytotoxicity and can minimize the influence on cell growth, due to the combined use of a refined silk fibroin aqueous solution, collagen and various biomaterials, and thus can be widely used as an ultra-thin film implant for implanting.

A method of making an organ or tissue comprises: (a) providing a first dispenser containing a structural support polymer and a second dispenser containing a live cell-containing composition; (b) depositing a layer on said support from said first and second dispenser, said layer comprising a structural support polymer and said cell-containing composition; and then (c) iteratively repeating said depositing step a plurality of times to form a plurality of layers one on another, with separate and discrete regions in each of said layers comprising one or the other of said support polymer or said cell-containing composition, to thereby produce provide a composite three dimensional structure containing both structural support regions and cell-containing regions. Apparatus for carrying out the method and composite products produced by the method are also described.

Disclosed is a new use of a stem cell generator in preparation of bone defect repair materials, wherein the stem cell generator is formed by implanting a biomaterial with osteogenic induction capability or a biomaterial loaded with active substances and/or cells into an animal or a human body and generating organoids after development, the active substances are bone morphogenetic protein-2, or bone morphogenetic protein-7, other growth factors/polypeptides having bone regeneration induction ability, growth factors/polypeptide combinations, or a combination thereof. The cells are bone marrow-derived mesenchymal stem cells, adipose-derived mesenchymal stem cells or other derived mesenchymal stem cells; other types of cells with osteogenic differentiation capability; cells that aid in osteogenic differentiation of mesenchymal stem cells, such as vascular endothelial cells and the like. The stem cell generator is used to prepare bone repair materials for treatment of various types of bone defects or bone deformities that are spontaneous or caused by trauma.

Glaucoma can be treated by implanting an intraocular shunt into an eye. The eye has an anterior chamber and sclera. A shunt can be placed into the eye to establish fluid communication from the anterior chamber of the eye through the sclera, and a pharmaceutical or biological agent can be administered to the eye.

The present invention relates to a composition for transplantation comprising an organoid, and a use of same. According to one example, using collagen, gelatin or fibrin glue as a scaffold for organoid transplantation results in a high transplantation rate and a high survival rate of organoid as well as desirable stability.

Despite the significant advances in designing injectable bulk hydrogels, the inability to control the pore interconnectivity and decoupling it from the matrix stiffness has tremendously limited the applicability of stiff, flowable hydrogels for 3D cellular engineering. To address this problem, we developed a universal method to convert macromolecules and the like with orthogonal chemical and/or physical responsivity, e.g., thermosensitive macromolecules with chemically-crosslinkable moieties, into annealable building blocks, forming 3D microporous beaded scaffolds in a bottom-up approach. For example, gelatin methacryloyl (GelMA), a widely used biomaterial in tissue engineering, may be converted into physically-crosslinked microbeads using a facile microfluidic approach, followed by flow of the microbead slurry and chemical crosslinking in situ to fabricate microporous beaded GelMA (B-GelMA) scaffolds with interconnected pores, promoting cell functionality and rapid (within minutes) 3D seeding in stiff scaffolds, which are otherwise impossible in the bulk gel counterparts.