An Approach to Allow Much Faster Bioprinting of Tissue

Source https://www.fightaging.org/archives/2021/03/an-approach-to-allow-much-faster-bioprinting-of-tissue/

Now that some groups, such as Volumetric, are working on ways to print tissue with blood vessel networks, ways to more efficiently bioprint larger volumes of tissue will be necessary. Costs must come down in order for the technologies to spread and evolve more rapidly. The road to bioprinting of entire replacement organs lies ahead, given (a) a robust solution for the production of tissues containing small-scale blood vessels, and (b) bioprinters that can turn out tissues reliably and rapidly.

It looks like science fiction: A machine dips into a shallow vat of translucent yellow goo and pulls out what becomes a life-sized hand. But the seven-second video, which is sped-up from 19 minutes, is real. The hand, wh…

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