Sentences with phrase «printed replacement organs»
Researchers are also making strides toward achieving what Wohlers calls the holy grail: printing replacement organs.
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The company's «moon shot,» which Wadsworth estimates is 10 to 15 years out, would be printing entire replacement organs from a patient's own cells.
He earned degrees in cell biology and tissue engineering and eventually got a job in a lab run by Vladimir Mironov, who was investigating the use of bioprinting — 3 - D printing using living cells — to generate replacement organs.
The future is bright for the field, Carden believes, and the day will arrive when a patient's own cells will be used with the printing technique to create new replacement organs.