Organovo Has Its First Commercial 3D Bio-Printer 91
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."
Fifth Element (Score:5, Interesting)
Waiter! (Score:4, Interesting)
Heart valves (Score:4, 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.
Re:Dead tree organs are so 90s (Score:3, Interesting)