Engineering Tissues to Heal Themselves: Bioinks and Tendon Scaffolds Show Promise for Helping the Body Recover from Musculoskeletal Injury.

Sufferers of osteoarthritis are all too aware of the daily pain and impairment of swollen joints, of having to give up sports-and jobs-due to cartilage defects. What they may be less aware of is that three-dimensional (3-D) bioprinting and bioink technologies are being developed to revolutionize the existing (and often imperfect) treatments available to them.