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Artificial Organs Whipped Up With an Inkjet Printer

Feb 6, 2010 11:15 PM

Doctor holding a pipette in a laboratory setting. Dr. Anthony Atala landed a place in PopSci's Best of 2006 with his homegrown bladders. Now Atala returns to the spotlight at a recent TED talk, discussing his current project of "printing" organs.

Via TED,

"Anthony Atala's state-of-the-art lab grows human organs -- from muscles to blood vessels to bladders, and more. At TEDMED, he shows footage of his bio-engineers working with some of its sci-fi gizmos, including an oven-like bioreactor (preheat to 98.6 F) and a machine that "prints" human tissue."

With Atala's research, organ donor waiting lists could be a thing of the past. Amazing.

Check out Atala's talk below.

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