Posted on 01/02/2010 2:39:02 PM PST by decimon
Invetech has delivered what it calls the "world's first production model 3D bio-printer" to Organovo, developers of the proprietary NovoGen bioprinting technology. Organovo will in turn supply the devices to institutions investigating human tissue repair and organ replacement.
Keith Murphy, CEO of Organovo, based in San Diego, said the units represent a breakthrough because they provide for the first time a flexible technology platform for organizations working on many different types of tissue construction and organ replacement.
"Scientists and engineers can use the 3D bio printers to enable placing cells of almost any type into a desired pattern in 3D," Murphy said. "Researchers can place liver cells on a preformed scaffold, support kidney cells with a co-printed scaffold, or form adjacent layers of epithelial and stromal soft tissue that grow into a mature tooth. Ultimately the idea would be for surgeons to have tissue on demand for various uses, and the best way to do that is get a number of bio-printers into the hands of researchers and give them the ability to make three dimensional tissues on demand."
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Peripheral ping.
is what the T-1000 uses?
Whoops, Meant the Cyberdyne Systems Model 101.
Tea, Earl Grey, hot.
I wonder how much the HP tissue cartridges will cost when they come out with a consumer model?
Just amazing, and without embryonic stem cells!
Does anyone remember what it was like when the offices first got copy machines?
1963. Worked for a bank in NYC. Xerox machines were not widespread. For a copy you had to go to a different department to the one woman who operated the ‘copy machine.’
Photographic process. Light-sensitive paper exposed to the original and then dunked into the developer/fixer solution. You got one copy.
Make it so.
thanks, bfl
regenerative medicine ping
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