Charleston scientists use desktop printers to produce three-dimensional structures of living tissue

Take a desktop printer, wash out its ink cartridge, refill it with a suspension of cells, and what do you get? The answer, according to Vladimir Mironov and Thomas Boland, is a breakthrough in tissue engineering. They have successfully produced three-dimensional tubes of living tissue using just such a technique. Their work is a first step towards printing complex tissues or even entire replacement organs

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