Wednesday, April 24, 2013

3D printer makes tiniest human liver ever - health - 23 April 2013 - New Scientist

3D printer makes tiniest human liver ever - health - 23 April 2013 - New Scientist

Organovo's ultimate goal is to create human-sized structures suitable for transplant; the big hurdle is being able to print larger branched networks of blood vessels to nourish such an organ. The company unveiled the mini-livers at the annual Experimental Biology conference this week in Boston.
Well, hurray for that.  Not all news is bad, but sometimes it seems that way.

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