Dai Nippon Printing Branches Out into Regenerative Medicine

Shimizu Yūji, general manager of Dai Nippon Printing’s Life Science Laboratory (left), and Tsuchiya Katsunori, a laboratory manager.

Creating three-dimensional capillaries in the lab.

The surface is hydrophobic at 37°C, but becomes hydrophilic at 20°C, allowing removal of the cells intact in their sheet form.