Thursday, August 22, 2019

Advances in 3D Printing of Replacement Tissue – Biomedical Beat Blog – National Institute of General Medical Sciences

Advances in 3D Printing of Replacement Tissue – Biomedical Beat Blog – National Institute of General Medical Sciences

Source: Eva Mutunga and Kate Klein, University of the District of Columbia and National Institute of Standards and Technology. This work is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial-ShareAlike 3.0 United States License.​
A bioprint of the small air sac in the lungs with red blood cells moving through a vessel network supplying oxygen to living cells.

Advances in 3D Printing of Replacement Tissue

Scientists funded in part by NIGMS devise ways to 3D print tiny air sacs in the lungs and small blood vessels. This technology may one day allow the production of replacement organs for those needing them.

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