Artificial blood vessels created on a 3D printer [View All]

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Source: BBC News

Artificial blood vessels made on a 3D printer may soon be used for transplants of lab-created organs.

Until now, the stumbling block in tissue engineering has been supplying artificial tissue with nutrients that have to arrive via capillary vessels.

A team at the Fraunhofer Institute in Germany has solved that problem using 3D printing and a technique called multiphoton polymerisation.

The findings will be shown at the Biotechnica Fair in Germany in October.

Out of thousands of patients in desperate need of an organ transplant there are inevitably some who do not get it in time.

Read more: http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/technology-14946808

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To all those political prisoners in Asia, 3rd world countries, the poor who sell their organs on the black market to feed their families,
I pray that other ways will be found! Artificial organ black markets are a black mark on the medical profession!