Currently, if you need a replacement organ you'll have to join a long waiting list or have a donor ready and willing. An emerging alternative is to 3D print new organs out of a patient's own cells, but that technology is still going through some teething issues. Now researchers have found a surprisingly simple answer to the complex problem of printing detailed vascular networks, and shown it off with a dramatic model of a breathing lung that passes oxygen into surrounding blood vessels.
.. Continue Reading How food dye may have unlocked 3D printable organs for transplantCategory: Biology
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- 3D bioprinting
- 3D Printing
- Bioprinting
- blood vessel
- Duke University
- Liver disease
- Lung
- New Atlas Audio
- Organ donation
- Rice University
- Rowan University
- Transplant
- University of Washington
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