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ZDNet September 28, 2020
Bioprinting and bioprinters could help transform medicine, getting new organs and therapies to where they’re needed faster.
You can print a lot of things with a 3D printer. A gun, a home, a dinner. Soon, you could even print new pieces of yourself.
While most uses of 3D printing involve extruding layers of plastic through a nozzle to create a three-dimensional structure, before too long, similar technology could let physicians print structures made of human cells — from tiny structures like ‘organs on a chip’, to huge ones like whole replacement organs.
“Bioprinting has a great promise — it has a lot of advantages and capabilities. Of course, it’s not really perfect yet, but despite that, we have all...
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