3-D Printing Enables Research On Bioprinted Human Organs
This article was originally published in The Gray Sheet
Executive Summary
Organovo has delivered its first 3-D printed liver tissue to an outside lab for further analysis, highlighting the advent of synthetically produced human organs. Scientists who received a government grant to do research in that arena told “The Gray Sheet” that bioprinting living human cells made it all possible.
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