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Related: About this forum3-D printing organs for transplant in our lifetimes?
https://www.reviewgeek.com/73200/high-speed-3d-printing-method-could-produce-human-organs-in-under-an-hour/
Biogel stereolitography is already suited to print cellular models with blood-vessel networks, although the technology is currently limited to centimeter-sized models. Scientists should be able to scale up the method, though, which will be essential for printing human-sized organs. Who knows, in the future, every hospital could be equipped with a biogel stereolithography printer to manufacture replacement organs on the fly, eliminating the need for human-to-human organ transplants.
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3-D printing organs for transplant in our lifetimes? (Original Post)
TreasonousBastard
Mar 2021
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PoliticAverse
(26,366 posts)1. I'm still more excited about 3D-printed pizza. n/t
FoxNewsSucks
(10,768 posts)2. In billionaires' lifetimes, probably.
Ours? Probably not.
Wicked Blue
(6,632 posts)3. Brains!
3-D printed brains for MAGAts.
soothsayer
(38,601 posts)4. Very cool new 3D printing research led by #UBuffalo engineers!! 10-50 faster than conventional metho
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Mar 5, 2021
Very cool new 3D printing research led by #UBuffalo engineers!! 10-50 faster than conventional methods. Could help with 3D-printed tissue, organs: http://buffalo.edu/news/releases/2021/03/007.html
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Turns out the researchers didn't limit themselves to a hand. They also 3D-printed a liver (just a demo, not ready for our bodies yet: https://acsu.buffalo.edu/~chizhou/liver.mp4 #UBuffalo