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Bio-ink for 3D printing inside the body

from IEEE Spectrum

Bio-ink for 3D printing inside the body IEEE Spectrum Right now, almost 70,000 people in the U.S. alone are on active waiting lists for organ donations. The dream of bio-printing is that one day, instead of waiting for a donor, a patient could receive, say, a kidney assembled on demand from living cells using 3D printing techniques. However, one problem with this dream is that bio-printing an organ outside the body necessarily requires surgery to implant it. READ MORE

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