We ve seen how 3D-printing can revolutionize certain manufacturing processes – whether on Earth or anywhere else – but there s a growing field of research looking at ways this can be applied to producing living, biological structures as well.
Additive manufacturing or 3D printing is a well-established technique for fabricating various designs and forms of complex shape or intricate detail. The method is also relatively common for printing mammalian cells in the context of tissue engineering and has more recently been applied to print microbial cells for biotechnological and biomedical applications.