Friday, January 24, 2003

New Scientist - Ink-jet printing creates tubes of living tissue




New Scientist
Three-dimensional tubes of living tissue have been printed using modified desktop printers filled with suspensions of cells instead of ink. The work is a first step towards printing complex tissues or even entire organs.



Creating blood vessels is a huge challenge"This could have the same kind of impact that Gutenberg's press did," claims tissue engineer Vladimir Mironov of the Medical University of South Carolina.

I wonder when this will be available in the printer supplies section at Fry's?

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