International Business Machines Corporation
System and method of printing 3D biostructures

Abstract:

A computer-implemented method of internally printing a biostructure on a damaged area of a patient. The method includes: assembling a first bioprinter capsule and a first cartridge capsule to form an assembled bioprinter internally within the patient based, at least in part, on directing one or more magnetic fields towards a first bioprinter capsule and a first cartridge capsule, moving the assembled bioprinter to the internally damaged area of the patient based, at least in part, on altering the one or more external magnetic fields directed towards the assembled bioprinter, and printing, via the assembled bioprinter, a first biostructure onto the internally damaged area of the patient based, at least in part, on altering the one or more external magnetic fields directed towards the assembled bioprinter, wherein the one or more external magnetic fields are sequentially altered to incrementally move the assembled bioprinter along at least one plane.