Bioengineers clear major hurdle on path to 3D printing replacement organs

Bioengineers have cleared a major hurdle on the path to 3D printing replacement organs and tissues with a new open-source technique for bioprinting tissues and templates with exquisitely entangled vascular networks similar to the body's natural passageways for blood, air, lymph and other vital fluids.
The research is featured on this week's cover of Science magazine. It includes a visually stunning proof-of-principle -- a scale-model of a lung-mimicking air sac where airways and blood vessels never touch yet still exchange oxygen -- and experiments to test whether a bioprinted implant with both blood vessels and liver cells could benefit mice with a genetic condition that mimics human liver disease.
The work was led by bioengineers Jordan Miller of Rice University and Kelly Stevens of the University of Washington (UW) and included 15 collaborators from Rice, UW, Duke University, Rowan University and Nervous System, a design firm in Somerville, Mass.
For more: news.rice.edu/2019/05/02/orga...

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nice, honestly some people like music groups and some like sports teams but the groups innovating stuff... legendary

[@leonthomas2118]

Retired after 55 plus years in Respiratory Care. This is absolutely amazing.

[@dsazer25]

So happy to share this with the world!!

[@evvie01]

So wonderful. It does my heart good to know these researchers and innovators are making their work open source. That will mean so much to future strides in so many fields. How do nutrients keep the cells alive even if it gets there? Do they know this part already? And so many other questions could be answered from this research.

[@weihonglibo]

Amazing

[@DRnick2359]

Where can I go to enroll in a Bioengineering program??? I want to do this kind of work....

[@fibonacci5617]

Amazing!

[@zeev]

hydrogel printing is getting hot.
they need to hook that machine up to pump a fuel based fluid to a generator whose electrical output is hooked up as the input to the pump for the artificial lung tissue. then you get an simulated sorta heart-lung-metabolism system

[@lasredchris]

Constant in motion
Valve

[@lasredchris]

Build living tissue made up of living cells
Lung airway. Bloodstream
Nutrients and oxygen into tissue and how to get waste products out

[@Revkmo]

Im starting a lab company and an interested in open source information

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MillerLabFTW!!!

[@ytrew9717]

OMG OMG!

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barev

[@bwv582]

Это отличные технологии.
Реальный мир в опасности, 3D члены атакуют.