Our young researchers and partner, INsociety, are at the third annual meeting of Engineered Living Materials EIC - European Innovation Council portfolio! We’ll be sharing results and networking with other partners at InnoRenew CoE in Izola, Slovenia. 🇸🇮

The European Commission is pleased to launch this new Science, Research & Innovation account. We look forward to connecting with the community on Bluesky! 🧪 Here you will find: - EU scientific news - Horizon Europe funding opportunities - Innovative EU-supported projects - Events, tools & resources

Our @horizoneu.bsky.social team is working on solutions to implant-associated infections from a new perspective. 🦠✨ We are developing bio-hydrogels that, when applied on infections, transform bacteria into a source for producing beneficial proteins. Visit our site to find out how: bioaction.eu

another busy day over in Warsaw for #Biofabrication2025. here the summary of our fantastic day of talks 📊 and posters 📃 #ISBFWarsaw2025

Alexandre Trubert will present our #HorizonEU project at #Biofabrication2025 tomorrow! 📣 Look for “Fabrication of Symbiotic Engineered Living Materials for Bone–Fat Interface Modelling” at session S10 on Tuesday 16 September at 18:30–18:40 CEST #ISBFWarsaw2025 #EngineeredLivingMaterials

Congratulations to our @horizoneu.bsky.social project partner, Anna Mariano, for her oral presentation titled “Bio-hydrogels with integrated osteoinductive signals for bone regeneration“ at ESB 2025! 👏 #TissueRegeneration #Hydrogels #EUeic #EUfunded

Our @horizoneu.bsky.social project partner, Mariangela Clemente, presented her poster at ESB 2025! It showcased recent work on multicompartmental Janus Liposomes, which have distinct hemispheres that interact with bacteria and hydrogels. 🌗 Congratulations! 🙌 #EUfunded #HorizonEU #EUeic #ESB2025

Only 3 days left and we'll also be in Warsaw🇵🇱 for #Biofabrication2025! Here all our contributions from @uni-wuerzburg.de, presenting many of our #meltelectrowriting and #bioprinting projects. 🌟Can't wait to see you all there!🌟

Meet the confirmed speakers for Day 1 of the PULSE Online Summer School! The opening day of our programme on tissue engineering and space medicine will kick off with experts exploring how the human body adapts to life beyond Earth! 🧑‍🚀🩺 More about this event at pulse-eic.eu/online-summe...

Our Summer School is just over the horizon! We invite students, early-career researchers, and professionals to explore tissue engineering and space medicine. 🌌 🏗️ 🧫 It will happen online from August 25 to 29. It’s free, but spaces are limited, so register ASAP! pulse-eic.eu/online-summe...

Our partner @xiang-l.bsky.social from Chalmers University of Technology was at #SEED2025 in Houston, TX, representing our #HorizonEU project! 🦠⚙️ He presented a poster co-authored with Verena Siewers on engineered yeas that make recombinant growth factors. prism-livingtissues.eu/chalmers-uni...

Check out this fantastic explainer video about a fellow #HorizonEU project working to leverage space for 3D bioprinting!

Take a seat in Hall 4 at #TERMISEU25 this afternoon! Our partner, @manuelsalmeron.bsky.social, will showcase our @horizoneu.bsky.social project! 🏗️ 🧫 17:46, Hall 4: “PRInted Symbiotic Materials as a dynamic platform for Living Tissues production” We look forward to hearing how it goes!

Engineered Living Materials were on the EU policy map at the Advanced Materials for Health workshop in Braga, thanks to the @ec.europa.eu’s Technology Council and @inl.int! 🇵🇹 From regenerative medicine to smart medical devices, ELMs offer capabilities that non-living materials can’t match.

PhD and postdocs working on bioprinting or biofabrication, submit your abstract to the International Society for Biofabrication’s online poster conference by May 23! #Bioprinting #Biofabrication #YoungResearchers docs.google.com/forms/d/e/1F...

Registrations for the ESB 2025 symposium “Advanced Biomaterials and Tissue Engineering for Effective Implant Infection Treatment” are still open! Apply by Monday, 31 March! 🏗️ 🧬 Register at esb2025.org/registration/

We truly need better tissue models! Our European-funded project is exploring a parallel approach to mini organs on chips. We’re developing a 3D bioprinting platform for more functional and complex hybrid tissues for food and biomedical applications. 🦴🥩 #Biomaterials #Bioprinting #HorizonEU

We have two new vacancies to join our research team at TU Delft! @shapingmatterlab.bsky.social 1. postdoc on 🐝 insect inspired 3D printing! lnkd.in/eDigGhRY 2. phd/postdoc to develop a new sustainable bio-inspired material based on 🦠 bacteria & 🧬 protein. lnkd.in/enK8-UKj lnkd.in/eS3USYxX

Today, we are reading this great review on volumetric printing. We wonder how this approach, combined with Engineered Living Materials (ELMs), might shape the future of bioprinting. 🤔 #Bioprinting #SyntheticBiology #EngineeredLivingMaterials #Innovation #HorizonEU

Engineered muscle tissue usually flexes in one direction. A team at @mitofficial.bsky.social led by @rituraman.bsky.social developed a method to “stamp” multi-direction patterns to engineer an “iris” robot for light-controlled pupil constriction! 👀 news.mit.edu/2025/artific...

I’d like to invite everyone working on engineering living materials to share this starter pack. Please drop me a message or leave a comment if you like to join the #ELMs community. go.bsky.app/RinsDZh

See PRISM-LT in motion! Our #HorizonEU project is developing a cutting-edge 3D bioprinting platform—get a glimpse! 🎬 Our team works on special bioinks that mimic natural tissue development and create hybrid tissues. 🏗️ 🧫 🔎 Learn more at prism-livingtissues.eu #biomaterials #bioprinting

We are officially part of the EIC Engineered Living Materials (ELMs) Portfolio! 🇪🇺 🙌 It’s a group of #HorizonEU projects working together to advance the scientific and technological development of better #Biomaterials. bioaction.eu/bioaction-jo... #EUeic #EngineeredLivingMaterials #Biofabrication

There is a new #HorizonEU project on Bluesky! This one is special. Like us, they are part of the @ec.europa.eu European Innovation Council’s portfolio on Engineered Living Materials (ELMs)! 🙌 They use fungi to create ELMs with controlled mechanical and structural properties! ⚙️ 🍄 #EUeic

If you’re into cell & tissue engineering, here is a great chance to discover and learn from 12 international speakers in the coming months! 🏗️ 🧫 Info & registrations at topicscteng.web.ua.pt Our #HorizonEU project partner João Mano @uaveiro.bsky.social and his team are organising it! 👏

Last week, we collaborated in a workshop on regulatory frameworks for engineered living materials (ELM), which have huge potential in medical fields! 🧬 ⚙️ prism-livingtissues.eu/eic-ema-work... #EngineeringLivingMaterials #Biotech #MedicalInnovation #Regulation

Our February focus issue delves into advancements in biofabrication technologies, showcasing how they are transforming our capacity to create complex biological structures with unmatched precision, control and speed – all free to access Read it here: go.nature.com/3WTonm7

If, like us, you want to stay up to date with research articles on Engineered Living Materials (ELMs), we recommend following this weekly list curated by Tallinna Tehnikaülikool and @theresearch.bsky.social ℹ️ biomed.news/bims-enlima/... #EngineeredLivingMaterials #ELMs

A great opportunity for post-doctorate on an European-funded project! 📣🇪🇺 loop-of-fun.eu is one the projects of the European Innovation Council’s Engineered Living Materials Portfolio.

Coming up, our Martina Baumann & Laurens Landeweerd discuss the ambivalence of 3D-printed living tissues for food and biomedical applications. Their work is related to EU and EIC project @prism-livingtissues.eu. See you at our colloquium the 4th of February 12:30! prism-livingtissues.eu

Submit your abstract for our #ESB2025 symposium: "Advanced Biomaterials and Tissue Engineering for Effective Implant Infection Treatment"! 🧫🧬🦾 Abstract submission is open until March 15, with at least 4 slots for oral presentations. 🗣️ Guidelines for submission at esb2025.org/abstract-sub...

CALL FOR ABSTRACTS – NOW OPEN! 🚀 Abstract submissions for #Biofabrication #ISBFWarsaw2025 are officially open! 🔬 Share your research and be part of the leading global conference on biofabrication. 📅 Deadline: 14 April 2025 🔗 biofabrication2025.org/abstract-sub... Share the news and spread the word!

Registration and abstracts open next week for the Tissue & Cell Engineering Society Conference in Bristol, 18–20 June. It’s a great opportunity for early career researchers!🧑‍🔬 @vivianlilab.bsky.social, @zenobilab.bsky.social, and more will be giving keynote addresses! 💬 More info at tces2025.co.uk

Find out what the EIC’s Engineered Living Materials Pathfinder portfolio was up to during 2024 in this new report! 🗂️ We look forward to participating in even more initiatives in 2025! Thank you, @bgerratana.bsky.social, for all the support! op.europa.eu/en/publicati... #EUeic #EICPathfinder

Here's my first go at bringing together everyone who does polymers + 3D printing! Polymer chemistry, rheology, characterization, devices, etc. All are welcome! Let me know if you want to be added to it #chemsky

Meet Volodymyr Kuzmenko, Principal Scientist at CELLINK & a key player in our #HorizonEU project! 🇪🇺 Volodymyr and his team are pioneering new bio-inks with “helper” yeast & bacteria cells to guide the differentiation of #StemCells. 🧫 🔎 Learn more at prism-livingtissues.eu

We are at the Engineered Living Materials (ELMs) conference as one of the projects in the @ec.europa.eu Innovation Council’s ELMs portfolio! 🏗🦠 Martina Baumann is presenting “Ethical & social aspects of ELMs in the food sector – the example of cultured meat.” 🔎 Meet our coordinator Massimo Vassalli.

Our #EUfunded team was featured in Horizon Magazine! 🔬 🇪🇺 Discover how we are developing new 3D bioprinting techniques to produce more complex & useful tissues. 🏗 “We see a big role for 3D bioprinting in healthcare and food production.” projects.research-and-innovation.ec.europa.eu/en/horizon-m...

Meet Elin Pernevik! As one of our partners from CELLINK, she is designing #bioinks and #biomaterials for our #EUfunded project! Her expertise brings us closer to 3D #bioprinting more complex hybrid tissues using dynamic scaffolds & microorganisms. 🦠 🧫 www.linkedin.com/feed/update/...

A very interesting study by Jens Kurreck et al. on the benefits of automating bioink mixing in #bioprinting! 🔎 doi.org/10.36922/ijb... Our #EUfunded project aims to automate the bioprinting of complex hybrid structures & the differentiation of cells.

Meet Massimo Vassalli 🎤, our scientific coordinator! He and his team at University of Glasgow are revolutionizing #bioengineering by integrating bacteria, yeast, and stem cells to create innovative tissues for #biomanufacturing! 🦠🦴🧫 www.linkedin.com/feed/update/...

Our #EUfunded team was at Göteborg to discuss our progress & next steps towards hybrid #EngineeredLivingMaterials! We took this chance to sync our efforts to enhance 3D #bioprinting 🧫 Thank you CELLINK and Chalmers University of technology for hosting us! 👏 #EUfunded #EUeic #EUpathfinder

Our @ec.europa.eu-funded project is meeting in sunny Göteborg, hosted by our partner CELLINK, to discuss our progress & future plans in advancing #biomanufacturing with engineered #microorganisms! 🧪🧫 💬 We are aligning our goals towards better #TissueEngineering for #healthcare & #food! 🦴🥩 #EUeic

Meet @sumoconsortium.bsky.social, one of the teams in a larger portfolio of #EUfunded projects (including ours) innovating Engineered Living Materials! 🇪🇺 SUMO uses #AI & #bioengineering for better alternatives to animal testing! 🧫 Learn more at prism-livingtissues.eu/related-proj...

Take this chance to meet experts in #bioprinting at @utrechtuniversity.bsky.social summer school! Our #EUfunded project partner João F. Mano from the CICECO – Aveiro Institute of Materials will be there to talk about the bio assembly of cells & materials for #Biofabrication

Deadline for abstract submission has been extended to MAY 5th!! #3R #TissueEngineering #InVitroModels #Biofabrication For all info, program, registration and submission: event.fourwaves.com/wi3r/pages

So proud of our partner David Mark who present his poster on engineered helper bacteria at Microbiology Society’s #Microbio2024 in Edinburgh! ✨ His role in our #HorizonEurope project is to engineer E. coli to respond & guide stem cell into bone or fat cells in our #3Dbioprinting system! 🧫 🧭

Congratulations to @ec.europa.eu for boosting biotechnology & biomanufacturing in the EU! 🧪➕ We’re excited to see how this new strategic roadmap will help our #EUfunded team #3DBioprint engineered living materials for healthcare, food production, & beyond!

Meet Fungateria! This exciting project from the #EUeic Engineered Living Materials portfolio mixes fungi & bacteria into living tissues that are sustainable & respond to their environment! 🦠🍄 More at fungateria.eu Explore the other portfolio projects at: prism-livingtissues.eu/related-proj...

Our scientific coordinator, Massimo Vassalli, is co-organizing the 7th International Symposium on Nanoengineering for Mechanobiology of Molecular & Cellular Systems! More at: n4m.mechanobiology.eu At our @ec.europa.eu project, we are making hybrid tissue with engineered living materials.