By publishing with JoVE, Dr. Dean’s lab captured how they converted a standard inkjet printer into a custom-built bioprinter allowing future students to learn the techniques quickly.
Challenge: Dr. Delphine Dean, Associate Professor of Bioengineering and her lab at Clemson University, accelerated research in the bioprinting field by developing a way to induce transient membrane pores in thousands of cells simultaneously while retaining high cell viability. Although revolutionary, they had difficulty sharing the method effectively with others.
Solution: Dean needed a quick and easy way to disseminate her lab’s unique technology to colleagues and students. By publishing with JoVE, her lab could clearly convey via video how they converted a standard inkjet printer into a custom-built bioprinter.
“Our JoVE Video Article has helped my lab because we can take the video that was already produced and then all the students get the same training because it’s the same format, it has close-ups of the things that are hard to do, so it speeds up the learning time initially.”
~ Dr. Delphine Dean, Clemson University
Results/Benefits:
- Use of JoVE video reduced the time it took for new students to learn the technique from one month down to one week. Since students spent 75% less time trying to learn it and could focus on applying it, they were able to advance the methods for new, broader applications. In less than a year, students modified the technique to print enzymes instead of cells, allowing them to test glucose levels of patients in underdeveloped countries for 1/100th of the cost of traditional methods.
- Visualizing the technique in JoVE’s unique video format was pivotal in securing grant funding and earning Dean the NSF CAREER award.
- Dean uses her JoVE Video Article to provide standardized and uniform training to her students.
- The video has received 41,000+ views since publication in March 2012.
- Dean re-published with JoVE in March 2017; once again her Video Article demonstrates a technique which she will use to train new undergraduate students in the lab.
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