It looks like you're using an Ad Blocker.

Please white-list or disable AboveTopSecret.com in your ad-blocking tool.

Thank you.

 

Some features of ATS will be disabled while you continue to use an ad-blocker.

 

3D Bio Printer

page: 1
1

log in

join
share:

posted on Jan, 28 2010 @ 06:38 PM
link   
Hey guys, I came across this news article just today, but it seems pretty rad and a forward step in medicine. It's about Invetech's new Bio Printer, which can print out organs made of your own cells, such as to be used for those with faulty organs. The video describes it pretty well, and it seems like a huge leap forward in medicine.


Invetech plan to ship a number of 3D bio-printers to Organovo during 2010 and 2011 as a part of the instrument development program. Organovo will be placing the printers globally with researchers in centers of excellence for medical research. “Scientists and engineers can use the 3D bio printers to enable placing cells of almost any type into a desired pattern in 3D,” said Murphy. “Researchers can place liver cells on a preformed scaffold, support kidney cells with a co-printed scaffold, or form adjacent layers of epithelial and stromal soft tissue that grow into a mature tooth. Ultimately the idea would be for surgeons to have tissue on demand for various uses, and the best way to do that is get a number of bio-printers into the hands of researchers and give them the ability to make three dimensional tissues on demand .” The 3D bio-printers include an intuitive software interface that allows engineers to build a model of the tissue construct before the printer commences the physical constructions of the organs cell-by-cell using automated, laser-calibrated print heads.
nextbigfuture.com...



Visit here to read more..




[edit on 28-1-2010 by Koolcdj69]



posted on Jan, 28 2010 @ 07:01 PM
link   
Just found out that this Bio Printer should be in the works around late 2010 or 2011



posted on Jan, 28 2010 @ 07:22 PM
link   
Now the Hollywood Elite won't have to worry about Plastic Surgery.

Michael Jackson could've had a Nose printed up in no time. If he was still alive, that is...

No more Botox for Octomum. She can go get Angelina Jolies lips printed up and glued onto her BIG Mouth....



new topics
 
1

log in

join