3D printing a new face, or liver, isn’t that far off
Sixty years from now, we’ll look back on today’s 3D-printed tissue and organ technology and think it’s as primitive as the iron lung seems to us now.
Six decades out, replacing a liver or a kidney will likely be a routine procedure that involves harvesting some patients cells, growing them and then printing them across artificial scaffolding.
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