Tissue-engineering.net: Organ Printing:
An interesting new approach of Tissue Engineering was reported by US scientists(1):
Tissue engineering technology promises to solve the organ transplantation crisis. However, assembly of vascularized 3D soft organs remains a big challenge.Tissue Engineers, as well as doctors and their patients, do not have the luxury to wait years until engineered tissues and organs become morphologically, biochemically, mechanically and functionally differentiated. Existing tissue technologies do not enable rapid assembling of tissues and organs.
Organ printing, which the scientists define as computer-aided, jet-based 3D Tissue Engineering of living human organs, offers a possible solution…