Technology maturing The world is seeing rapid advances in 3 - D printers, which manufacture items from blueprints using a growing variety of ingredients — plastic, ceramic, glass, metal and even more unusual ingredients like sugar, mashed potatoes, chocolate and living
cells.
The choice of the somatic
cell for reprogramming, the reprogramming
technology chosen, and the differentiation techniques utilised, all work synergistically towards the production of
mature iPSCs - derived chondrocytes which are comparable to patient - derived chondrocytes, in line with Good Manufacturing Practice guidelines for an «off - the - shelf» stem
cell product.