Everything indicates that you can print 3D everything these days. From metal or plastic weapons to liver! There also seems to be quite a bit of progress in living tissue 3D printing, and the technique boasts unlimited possibilities which gives to science.
The company Organically announced that it managed to successfully build a functional human liver, although it only survived for 40 days in laboratory conditions. The liver was just half a millimeter in height and four millimeters wide, but it could imitate just the functions of the human organ.
The liver was made from a layer of liver cells. While 3D printed liver, it was a very small liver, it could be used for trials and medical investigations.
"OR platform NovoGen Bioprinting of Organically was used to create bio-printed prototypes of liver tissue containing parenchymal and non-parenchymal cells that were controlled separately, determined by the user's geometry and reproduced the composition and architectural features of natural tissue, ”the company said.
"One of the advantages of the automated bioprinting platform is that it enables the construction and comparative testing of multiple compositions and geometries so that the combinations produced can be systematically determined based on histological and functional Results. "
The big problem with the 3D printed tissues that have been created to date is that the techniques are able to reproduce the cells on a very small scale.
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