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3D printing of living tissue/organs

Posted: Tue Feb 16, 2016 11:44 am
by DeanH
Hopefully another small step forward that will eventually lead to further advances in being able to create organs and parts for transplantation.

http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/health-35581454

Re: 3D printing of living tissue/organs

Posted: Wed Feb 17, 2016 9:25 am
by chrisb
I saw on TV a while ago an interview with a surgeon and a father, explaining how they had made a 3D copy of his kidney to see if it could be transplanted into his tiny baby. The copy of his kidney was soft and they placed it into a 3D copy of her diaphragm which was hard alongside copies of her liver bowel etc which were soft thus finding out if the transplant op would work before actually carrying g it out. Amazing.

Re: 3D printing of living tissue/organs

Posted: Wed Feb 17, 2016 7:23 pm
by rheaybou

Re: 3D printing of living tissue/organs

Posted: Wed Feb 24, 2016 10:25 pm
by olliecaine