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Doctors 3D-print ‘living’ body parts

16-Feb-2016

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Sections of bone, muscle and cartilage all functioned normally when implanted into animals

Blood vessels and nerves grew into the implants.

Challenge for replacement organs has been keeping the cells alive as they become starved of oxygen and nutrients.

3D-prints a tissue riddled with micro-channels to allow nutrients to penetrate the tissue.

The study was published in the Nature Biotechnology journal.

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Anthony Atala

Director of Wake Forest Institute for Regenerative Medicine.

Martin Birchall

Throat Surgeon and Advanced Surgical Technologies research group leader, Professor at UCL.

Nature Biotechnology

Journal providing information from all areas of biotechnology.

Wake Forest Baptist Health

Fully integrated academic medical center and health system.

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Regenerative Medicine