Saturday, June 13, 2009

Printing New Organs

The US Department of Health and Human Services predicts: "Within 20 years regenerative medicine will be the standard of care for replacing all tissue/organ systems in the body." Work to make this a reality has already begun in the US: http://www.lef.org/news/LefDailyNews.htm?NewsID=8366&Section=AGING&source=DHB_090613&key=Body+Title

and Japan: http://technutnews.com/2008/11/04/bio-printing-technology-to-produce-functional-human-organs/

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