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Organovo Has Its First Commercial 3D Bio-Printer

Posted by ScuttleMonkey on from the company-with-a-lot-of-heart(s) dept.

kkleiner writes "Organovo and strategic partner Invetech hope in 2010 to release a commercial version of their 3D organ printer capable of producing very basic tissues like blood vessels. While it is still limited to simple tissue structures (full organs are a long ways off), Organovo plans to deliver the printers to various research institutions interested in organ and tissue production. Working with these institutions, Organovo hopes to one day progress to creating a system that can print organs as easily as other 3D printers print plastic figurines."

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  1. Fifth Element by ichthus · · Score: 4, Interesting

    This, obviously, will remind several of us SciFi fans of the reconstruction scene in the Fifth Element -- which I am too lazy to track down and link right now, so I'll let some other person whore for the karma instead.

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  2. Waiter! by 2names · · Score: 3, Interesting

    I'd like four bottles of your finest whiskey and one new liver please.

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  3. Heart valves by tsa · · Score: 3, Interesting

    I hope it can print heart valves. I am not an expert, but those look simple and printed heart valves can help a lot of people.

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  4. Re:Dead tree organs are so 90s by dbcad7 · · Score: 2, Interesting

    Make your payments, and you'll have no problems.. http://www.imdb.com/title/tt1053424/

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