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3D-printing a new lifelike liver tissue for drug screening

15-Feb-2016

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Closely mimics the human liver’s sophisticated structure and function.

Honeycomb pattern using cells derived from human induced pluripotent stem cells.

Could be used for patient-specific drug screening and disease modeling.

90% of drugs don’t pass animal tests or human clinical trials.

The study was published in the Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences.

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Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences (PNAS)

Multidisciplinary scientific journal, official journal of the National Academy of Sciences

Shaochen Chen

Professor and Chair of NanoEngineering Department at University of California San Diego.

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Regenerative Medicine