Bioprinting
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A couple of engineering students at the University of Toronto have created the PrintAlive, a 3D printer that produces skin grafts for burn victims on demand, potentially putting an end to harvesting a person's own body for healthy skin.
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The ability to bio-print tissues and organs could allow us to create custom body parts that could be used for transplants. New research has brought that possibility one step closer to reality. Scientists have bio-printed artificial vascular networks that mimic the body's circulatory system.
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ScienceA new bioprinting method developed by researchers from the Wyss Institute for Biologically Inspired Engineering at Harvard University has enabled the creation of tissue constructs with small blood vessels and multiple cell types, marking important progress toward the printing of living tissue.
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Researchers at Oxford University have created a custom 3D printer capable of printing synthetic materials that have some of the properties of living tissues.
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ScienceScientist have used a 3D printer along with collagen and cartilage cells, to grow replacement human ears in a lab.
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Scientists have created artificial vascular networks for use in lab-grown organs, using sugar.
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Researchers at Clemson University have discovered that inkjet bioprinting disrupts the membranes of the cells being printed, leaving them open to having proteins inserted.