About the Authors
- Kenichi Arai
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Roles Conceptualization, Data curation, Formal analysis, Investigation, Methodology, Visualization, Writing – original draft
Affiliation Department of Regenerative Medicine and Biomedical Engineering, Faculty of Medicine, Saga University, Saga, Japan
- Daiki Murata
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Roles Formal analysis, Writing – review & editing
Affiliation Department of Regenerative Medicine and Biomedical Engineering, Faculty of Medicine, Saga University, Saga, Japan
- Ana Raquel Verissimo
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Roles Writing – review & editing
Affiliation Department of Regenerative Medicine and Biomedical Engineering, Faculty of Medicine, Saga University, Saga, Japan
- Yosuke Mukae
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Roles Formal analysis, Validation
Affiliation Department of Thoracic and Cardiovascular Surgery, Faculty of Medicine, Saga University, Saga, Japan
- Manabu Itoh
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Roles Formal analysis, Validation
Affiliation Department of Thoracic and Cardiovascular Surgery, Faculty of Medicine, Saga University, Saga, Japan
- Anna Nakamura
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Roles Formal analysis, Writing – review & editing
Affiliation Department of Regenerative Medicine and Biomedical Engineering, Faculty of Medicine, Saga University, Saga, Japan
- Shigeki Morita
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Roles Validation
Affiliation Department of Thoracic and Cardiovascular Surgery, Faculty of Medicine, Saga University, Saga, Japan
- Koichi Nakayama
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Roles Conceptualization, Project administration, Software, Writing – review & editing
* E-mail: nakayama@me.saga-u.ac.jp
Affiliation Department of Regenerative Medicine and Biomedical Engineering, Faculty of Medicine, Saga University, Saga, Japan
Competing Interests
Co-author K. Nakayama is a co-founder and shareholder of Cyfuse Biomedical KK. and an investor/ developer designated on the patent for the Bio-3D printer. Patent title: Method for Production of Three-Dimensional Structure of Cells; patent number: JP4517125. Patent title: Cell Structure Production Device; patent number: JP5896104. The other authors have declared that no competing interests exist. This does not alter the authors’ adherence to PLOS ONE policies on sharing data and materials.