Organ Printing Progress

Paul Raven @ 19-04-2006

There has been some success recently with the growing of replacement organs. But growing is slow, especially when you consider organ replacement is best done sooner rather than later. Enter Gabor Forgacs, a biophysicist at the University of Missouri - he has developed a new bioprinting technique that could be used to create complex tissue structures such as veins far more efficiently than previous methods allowed.

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