Functional 3D Printed Organs by 2014

A breakthrough in vascular 3D printing has led bio-printing firm Organovo to predict printed livers will be available within the next year.

While the announcement has sparked even more interest in the burgeoning field of 3D bio-printing, Organovo has stated that its printed liver won’t be suitable for human transplant. Instead, the liver will be used as proof that the San Diego-based company has the chops to build a printer that can reliably produce human liver tissue.
(…weiter auf engineering.com)




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