Glossary
Bio-printing - From the organ to personalized medicine, results and promises

4D printing

Additive manufacturing in which the fourth dimension introduced is time. This technology makes it possible to print objects which then change shape on their own or self-assemble over time.

Angiogenesis; Angiogenesis

The process of growing new blood vessels from pre-existing ones.

Auto-organisation; Self-organization

The process of spontaneous emergence of order in a system, due to internal relationships within the system and/or relationships with its environment, and the manifestation of these relationships in the passage of time.

Bio-printing

An emerging topic in additive manufacturing technologies, aimed at manufacturing living organs and/or tissues.

Stem cells; Cellules souches...