I’ve seen alot of this sort of thing lately, there are loads of videos and articles about science research labs actually printing human cells, sheets of skin, fingers and even organs. This stuff is crazy futuristic stuff, and I’ve had a little dig around and found some great videos of some of the printers and things they’ve created.
This first video is from a U.S. military research lab that have developed an awsome treatment for severe burns by printing new skin straight onto wherever the skin is missing. They grow skin cells from a patients body and insert them into a sterile ink cartridge and then the printer uses a 3d scan of the wound to guide the printing. All this using a modified inkjet printer.
The second video is part of a series of videos on gizmodo. One of the videos showing scientists at the Wake Forest Institute using inkjet technology to print a small two-chamber heart to illustrate the process of creating an organ! Just follow this link.
This last video I think is also from the Wake Foerst Institute and it shows a bladder and a heart valve created using the same technology and it also explains in more detail how the organs are built up in 3d cell by cell.
Some of this is unbelievable, but it’s all happening. If you want to see more just do a youtube search and you will find a load of videos on the subject of printing organs, etc.
