Bioprinting human tissues could take personalized medicine to new heights.
A team of researchers at Wake Forest School of Medicine in North Carolina has devised a way to 3D print human-scale bone, muscle, and cartilage that survives when transplanted into animals,according to Reuters. Using clinical imaging data and an integrated tissue-organ printer, the researchers successfully created skull and jawbone, ear cartilage, and muscle, and these tissues — implanted in mice and rats — showed normal growth and function at five months.
“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.
The new process is dubbed the integrated tissue and organ printing system, or ITOP. This development could be transformative for personalized medicine, since being able to bioprint reliable human tissues would allow surgeons to bioengineer body parts from the patient’s own tissues. For the full article click here
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