3D Bioprinting Market

3D Printing Holds the Potential to Revolutionise the Future of Healthcare

With the revolutionary 3D bioprinting technology, the world where terminal patients would not have to wait for months, or even longer for a lifesaving transplant could actually be the reality of the medical world. Predominantly involving patient-specific surgical models, custom-made prosthetics, personalised on-demand medicines, and even 3D printing of human tissues, 3D bioprinting is looked at as the future of additive technology in the world of healthcare and medicine, which points to an excellent outlook of 3D bioprinting market worldwide.

Tissue damage, and degeneration is a rather common phenomenon among humans, and the human body has limited regeneration capabilities. Current treatment options to replace damaged tissues, and organs rely on obtaining material from the same individual, or transplantation from cadavers. In case of an organ, or tissue donation, finding out the appropriate donor match is an uphill task and even has a risk of graft rejection due to potentially varying immune response. The progress in drug testing, and regenerative medicine could largely benefit from laboratory-engineered human tissues built of a variety of cell types with precise 3D architecture. The additive manufacturing technology has also led to remarkable advances in the healthcare industry as it facilitates on-demand, personalised printing of cells, tissues, and organs as complicated as heart. The technology excels at catering to highly customised applications, and the human body is about as custom as it gets. Global 3D bioprinting market is thus poised for a bright future as it continues to penetrate more areas of application.

3D Bioprinting Increasingly Perceived as a Potentially Non-expensive, and Time-efficient Alternative

Medical devices often have complex design requisites, internal geometries, or organic forms - like the curves and hollow spaces in a hearing aid, or a heart. Moreover, implants are more likely to be accepted by a patient’s body if they have porous surfaces. These types of shapes are difficult, rather near to impossible to achieve with the help of traditional manufacturing. This is where 3D bioprinting can make the difference. Implants, prostheses, devices, anatomical models, and even some tools that need to be designed for different patients could be obtained with the help of 3D bioprinting. While with traditional technologies, such a level of customisation is highly expensive, and time-consuming, 3D bioprinting can produce small runs of custom parts - even just one part at a time. This would eliminate the need for additional costs, tooling, and set-up, thereby pushing the performance of 3D bioprinting market.

3D Bioprinting Targets a Massive Demand-Supply Gap in Transplant Space

A significant goal underlying the growth of 3D bioprinting market is the potential to bridge the enormous gap between demand and supply of organs for transplantation. The organ shortage is a global crisis due to a rapidly increasing demand for organ transplantation, and inadequate availability of organ donors. A huge gap that continues to exist between the demand for organ transplants and the actual supply accounts as the key factor pushing 3D bioprinting market.

As per The American Transplant Foundation, and The United Network for Organ Sharing (UNOS), over 120,000 people are currently waiting with bated breath for different organ donations in the US alone. The number of patients waiting for an organ donor has multiplied five-fold in the last 26 years. A new person is added to the waiting list of organ seekers every nine minutes. 17 people die every day due to the lack of availability, or appropriateness of organ donors. The average wait time for a heart transplant in the UK is around 1,085 days, and nearly 3.5 years for a kidney transplant in the US. While a person can donate a kidney when living, a heart cannot be donated unless comes from a brain-dead patient. One is not guaranteed to survive the waiting time, thus the ability to 3D bio-print the desired organs would be invaluable to the world. Besides, the ability to easily transport 3D printers has made it a key tool even in conflict zones to help those who have lost limbs, with MakerBot being one of the leaders in this area of healthcare.

Fully Functioning, Transplantable Organs Remain the Ultimate Goal of 3D Bioprinting

The biomaterials used for 3D bioprinting applications refer to the synthetic, and natural polymers such as alginate, gelatine, collagen, agarose, polyethylene glycol (PEG), and hydroxyapatite because of their biocompatible nature, and controllable physio-chemical properties that can be modified to suit the ECM structure, and formation. The main objective of three-dimensional printing is to print a living cell, or create a 3D scaffold of a biomaterial - a composite made up of biomaterials, cells, and other required components. It involves an automated fabrication of 3D printed living tissues by the layer-wise deposition of biomaterials with an accurate positioning of cells.

The main component of the 3D bioprinting is the printing ink, i.e., bio-ink (such as cells, biomedical polymers, and bio-signals), which is crucial for the development of functional organs, or tissue structures. The technology can be used for fabrication of functional human tissues, or organs such as cartilages, heart, liver, skin, bones, and muscles along with generation of microfluidic models of organs-on-a-chip. As the 3D bioprinting technology continues to progress, healthcare providers, and researchers will continue to explore newer applications - from implants, and surgical tools, to tissues and functioning organs such as 3D printed lungs, intestines, liver, and brain. A recent research study published by a team of Polish researchers throws light on printing prototypes of artificial pancreas. These and more such innovations around the technology’s potential role in medicine and healthcare will favour the 3D bioprinting market growth.

In-situ Bioprinting Remains a Challenge with Multiple Obstacles

3D bioprinting has impacted everything from spine care to orthotics, and 3D bio-printed tissues are supposed to be applied directly at the point of injury, whether it is the tissue itself, around bones, or on the skin. Doctors may be able to scan wounds and spray on layers of cells to heal them faster. Tailoring medical solutions to patients, and doctors improves the final outcome. Leading brands active in global 3D bioprinting market space such as L’Oréal are investing premium into R&D to discover ways to create 3D printed skin. 3D bio-printed skin is useful not just for humans directly but also for skincare, and other related segments seeking new ways to test their products, study human organ functioning, and test pharmaceutical drugs without requiring living humans, or animals. The real challenge facing the 3D bioprinting market players is its overly complicated know-hows, and therefore the associated ethical, and regulatory concerns, as well as the various biological, and technological challenges.

Major Companies in Global 3D Bioprinting Market

Allevi Inc., Andiamo, Aspect Biosystems Ltd, CELLINK GLOBAL, CoreLink, LLC., ENVISIONTEC, INC., LAZARUS 3D, LightForce Ortho, Organovo Holdings Inc., Poietis, and Tissue Regeneration Systems Inc. are some of the significant players driving the competitive landscape of the global 3D bioprinting market.

The 3D bioprinting market is segmented as below:

By Component

• 3D Bioprinters
• Biomaterials
• Scaffolds

By Technology

• Syringe/Extrusion Bioprinting
• Inkjet Bioprinting
• Magnetic Levitation Bioprinting
• Laser-assisted Bioprinting
• Other Technologies

By Application

• Drug Testing and Development
• Regenerative Medicine
• Food Testing
• Research
• Other Applications

By Region

• North America
  • U.S.
  • Canada
• Europe
  • UK
  • Germany
  • France
  • Italy
  • Russia
• Asia Pacific
  • China
  • India
  • Japan
  • South Korea
• Latin America
  • Brazil
  • Mexico
• MEA
  • Saudi Arabia
  • UAE
  • South Africa

Key Elements Included In The Study: Global 3D Bioprinting Market

• 3D Bioprinting Market by Product/Technology/Grade, Application/End-user, and Region
• Executive Summary (Opportunity Analysis and Key Trends)
• Historical Market Size and Estimates, Value, 2018 - 2021
• Market Value at Regional and Country Level, 2022 - 2029
• Market Dynamics and Economic Overview
• Market Size in Value, Growth Rates, and Forecast Figures, 2022 - 2029
• Competitive Intelligence with Financials, Key Developments, and Portfolio of Leading Companies 
• Regional and Product/Grade/Application/End-user Price Trends Analysis
• Value Chain and Five Force’s Analysis
• Regional/Sub-region/Country Market Size and Trend Analysis
• Company Market Share Analysis and Key Player Profiles

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