3D printing biological...
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However, this technology is not using 3D-printing
The concept is :
take a very small piece of that tissue.
Then, grow the cell outside the body.
1. preprocessing
primarily deals with the development of a computer-aided design (CAD) or blueprint of a specific organ.
The design can be derived from digitized image reconstruction of a natural organ or tissue.
Imaging data can be derived from various modalities including noninvasive scanning of the human body
2. processing
Processing usually refers to actual computer-aided printing or layer-by-layer placement of cells or cell aggregates into a 3D environment using CAD or blueprints.
3. postprocessing
postprocessing is concerned with the perfusion of printed organs and their biomechanical conditioning to both direct and accelerate organ maturation.
Benefit
Shortage of organ donor would likely to be out of equation
the body would have less problem working with the new organ since it's basically made up of your own cell
Dr Anthony Atala
W.H. Boyce Professor
Director of the Wake Forest Institute for Regenerative Medicine
Printing a human kidney by using Regenerative Medicine
Recently Research
A group at the German Fraunhofer Institute has created blood vessels, by printing artificial biological molecules with a 3D inkjet printer and zapping them into shape with a laser
In December 2010, Organovo create the first blood vessels to be bio-printed using cells cultured from a single person
Recently Research
In 2011, researchers in Washington State University used a 3D printer to create a bone-like material and structure
Organovo presented its first fully cellular 3-D bioprinted liver tissue data in April at the 2013 Experimental Biology conference in Boston.
Conclusion
The bioprinting revolution could eventually begin to deliver "tissue on demand" within the next 10 or 15 years.
People can lives longer than today.