11.12.05
Print Your Own Organs
This is amazing. The University of Utah College of Pharmacy has invented a way to “print” human organs using white blood cells as “bio-ink”, and printing onto a hydro-gel substance. It prints in layers, which eventually hardens to become human tissue. The cells are taken from the patient to avoid any nasty rejection mess.
Human testing should begin in about a year. This could be great for transplant patients, and would side-step all of the stem-cell research stigma that we have here in the US.