Researchers in Singapore have published a review mapping the country’s recent contributions to biofabrication and biomanufacturing, from waste-derived biomaterials and 3D bioprinting to cultivated food, regenerative medicine, microneedles, and bioelectronics.

Published in Bio-Design and Manufacturing , the review examines work led by Singapore-based research groups across three areas: bio-derived materials, enabling manufacturing technologies, and emerging applications. The authors argue that biofabrication and biomanufacturing are increasingly overlapping as biological systems, advanced materials, digital tools, and automated fabrication platforms are combined to produce functional biological products.

The paper was authored by researchers from institutions including Nanyang Technological University (NTU), the National University of Singapore (NUS), A*STAR , the Singapore Eye Research Institute , Duke-NUS Medical School, and the Singapore National Eye Centre .

Biofabrication is defined as the automated,…