his team are using 3-D printers to create tiny replicas of human organs, including miniature lungs and colons
Holy cow, I know we all wanted flying cars but in many ways this is even cooler and more useful! This kind of thing is indeed something that just screams "Here comes the future!".
but in many ways this is even cooler and more useful! This kind of thing is indeed something that just screams "Here comes the future!".
Yup, it's indeed *extremely useful*. It's been used a lot by some colleagues working on cancer research.
There's a lot of things that you can't study on simple cell culture in a petri dish, because there much more to it than just a loose collection of cells. A lot of disease and treatments depends on complex interaction between multiple different population of cells, and from their 3d organization and structure.
It used to be that moving to an animal model was the only way to study diseases and test treatments
Now THIS is the future! (Score:5, Insightful)
his team are using 3-D printers to create tiny replicas of human organs, including miniature lungs and colons
Holy cow, I know we all wanted flying cars but in many ways this is even cooler and more useful! This kind of thing is indeed something that just screams "Here comes the future!".
Useful indeed (Score:5, Informative)
but in many ways this is even cooler and more useful! This kind of thing is indeed something that just screams "Here comes the future!".
Yup, it's indeed *extremely useful*. It's been used a lot by some colleagues working on cancer research.
There's a lot of things that you can't study on simple cell culture in a petri dish, because there much more to it than just a loose collection of cells.
A lot of disease and treatments depends on complex interaction between multiple different population of cells, and from their 3d organization and structure.
It used to be that moving to an animal model was the only way to study diseases and test treatments
Thanks (Score:1)
Appreciate some of that interesting additional info! I'll have to read up on this more.