Researchers are also making strides toward achieving what Wohlers calls the holy grail:
printing replacement organs.
Not exact matches
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.