3-D Printing Enables Research On Bioprinted Human Organs

Organovo has delivered its first 3-D printed liver tissue to an outside lab for further analysis, highlighting the advent of synthetically produced human organs. Scientists who received a government grant to do research in that arena told “The Gray Sheet” that bioprinting living human cells made it all possible.

Organovo Holdings Inc. announced the delivery of its first 3-D printed liver tissue to an external laboratory, which will recommend additional refinements to the product in preparation for its commercial launch, expected by the end of year.

"In developing these tissues, we have gone through a careful set of research studies involving many individual tissues, and greatly...

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