3 Dimension Bio-Printer
Published on May 5, 2011 by synisterstylez · No Comments
Dr. Anthony Atala made waves at the TED conference this year by introducing a 3-d printer that can print human organs. I know what you are thinking…..any printer can do that, no, I literally mean it can print Human Organs! Atala, the director of the Regenerative Medicine at Wake Forest University Baptist Med Center, said that this printer isn’t just some cool toy. The number of needed transplants has doubled in the last 10 years, while the number of donors stays the same.
This is how it works, A machine scans a 3D image of a organ. than the printer is seeded with tissue from the patient, which then creates a new organ one layer at a time. this process takes 6 to 7 hours.
The technology isn’t quite ready to be used, it is is way more than a pipe dream. Man made tissue has already been used to patch ailing hearts. They claim that as the technology is improved upon it will even be able to print new skin right on the patient.
As weird as this may sound, it is very interesting and caught my attention when I heard of it.
httpv://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1O3c3pUg0L8
For my take on tis type of stuff please read an earlier article I wrote, Real life Genetic Opera in the Works .
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