The ability to simply print up new, living versions of the damaged parts of your body is a crazy thought. It’s also becoming more and more viable as a medical procedure, and cuts and scrapes aren’t the only maladies that medical 3D printing can help cure. Living, 3D printed retina cells could someday aid in curing many kinds of blindness.
At the University of Cambridge, reserchers have pulled off something of a 3D printing coup. Using lab rats, they’ve printed living central nervous system cells for the very first time. Led by professor Keith Martin, the team actually printed viable retina cells, using an inkjet printer, of all things.
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