Bioprinting medical devices: Criminal evaluation issues

Abstract

The provided publication raises the issues of the necessary further improvement of the legal regulation of biomedical printers used for printing tissue-engineered structures and organ prototypes. The authors raise issues about the legal status of the “medical bioprinter”, as well as issues of further directions of regulation of relations in this area. The study of the conceptual and categorical apparatus is necessary to consider the issues of criminal liability for the illegal circulation of bioprinters. Measures are offered to improve the criminal legislation.