Reuters
16 February, 2016, 19:09
Update: 16 February, 2016, 19:09

3D ‘bioprinter’ produces bone, muscle, and cartilage

Reuters
16 February, 2016, 19:09
Update: 16 February, 2016, 19:09
Three 3D printers from xyzPrinting, including the da Vinci Mini 3D printer (L), are displayed during a press event for CES 2016 at the Mandalay Bay Convention Centre on 4 January 2016 in Las Vegas, Nevada. Photo: AFP

A new method of 3D printing can produce human-sized bone, muscle, and cartilage templates that survive when implanted into animals, researchers report.

‘It has been challenging to produce human scale tissues with 3D printing because larger tissues require additional nutrition,’ Dr. Anthony Atala from Wake Forest School of Medicine, Winston-Salem, North Carolina told Reuters Health by email.

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