Bioprinting
3D printing is taking another leap forward with bioprinting: literally printing three-dimensional living objects. One of the pioneers, Inventia Life Science, is printing living cells for pharmaceutical research and medical drug discovery. How does it work? Cells taken from a patient are cultivated and multiplied to create bio-inks, which are printed from a cartridge with an ink-jet nozzle as microdroplets onto a tissue culture plate. Hence, 3D cancer cells can be printed with the same form and structure as in the body and then different drugs can be tested on those cells. Soon, tissues and organs may be 3D-printable.
— Wayne Visser
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