Editorial: bioprinting in cardiac tissue engineering

In this editorial, Priyanka Koti, Lead Production Engineer at CELLINK (MA, USA) and Eman Mirdamadi, PhD Bioengineering Student at the University of Maryland, College Park (MD, USA) discuss the use of 3D bioprinting in cardiac tissue engineering and the considerations that need addressing before bioprinting a full human heart could be a reality. Despite being one of the most complex organs to engineer, the human heart has long been the ‘poster child’ for 3D bioprinting. The novelty of bioprinting has enticed researchers into being the first to bioprint functionalized hearts for heart disease research and possible organ transplantation. However, their...