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TreasonousBastard

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Mon Mar 8, 2021, 03:11 PM Mar 2021

3-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 OP
I'm still more excited about 3D-printed pizza. n/t PoliticAverse Mar 2021 #1
In billionaires' lifetimes, probably. FoxNewsSucks Mar 2021 #2
Brains! Wicked Blue Mar 2021 #3
Very cool new 3D printing research led by #UBuffalo engineers!! 10-50 faster than conventional metho soothsayer Mar 2021 #4

soothsayer

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4. Very cool new 3D printing research led by #UBuffalo engineers!! 10-50 faster than conventional metho
Mon Mar 8, 2021, 05:45 PM
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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
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