As part of the All-Russian Festival of Science on October 10, 2020, LIMU PhD student Alisa Krokhmal gave an online lecture on the topic "Ultrasound as a tool for biofabrication". In bioengineering, the direction of biofabrication is actively developing, when viable tissues are formed from tissue spheroids - conglomerates of living cells about 0.2 mm in size - which in the future can replace diseased human tissues. The lecture describes the role of ultrasound and the use of acoustic radiation force to move tissue spheroids and form three-dimensional tissue engineering constructs. This approach in medicine will completely abandon the use of natural or synthetic biomaterials, the clinical use of which is associated with the risk of rejection and development of inflammatory processes.

To see clearly the process of biofabrication, you can visit the virtual laboratory En + Group, which was created with the intellectual support of the “BAZIS” Foundation for the Development of Theoretical Physics and Mathematics, where the development of Moscow State University and 3D Bioprinting Solutions is presented. In the virtual laboratory, you can learn how the biofabrication process takes place and independently assemble a tube (artificial blood vessel) from virtual tissue spheroids.

Within the framework of the Science Festival, members of LIMU A.A. Krokhmal and S.A. Tsysar took part in filming a plot for the news release of the Russia-1 channel. The film crew visited the LIMU experimental laboratory in the Lomonosov building, and “Vesti” correspondent G. Baltaeva asked about the trends in the study of ultrasound and its application in biofabrication problems.