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Originally Posted by TheSquealer
A "liver"??
?Nobody who has any credibility claims they can print organs, or believes in their heart of hearts that that will happen in the next 20 years,? said Brian Derby, a researcher at the University of Manchester in Britain who reviewed the field last year in an article in the journal Science.
For now, researchers have set their sights lower. Organovo, for instance, a San Diego company that has developed a bioprinter, is making strips of liver tissue, about 20 cells thick, that it says could be used to test drugs under development."
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Yes, they plan to deliver slices of liver, because it can be kept alive longer. This particular print out though was not a slice, but a real sized organ, at least the wording of the article points that way. I never claimed it to be functional, or usable yet.
Just very cool.
20 years for a usable printed organ, seems ok for me also. However, i guess they get it done a lot faster.