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BetaBeat: “Finally, the technique for 3D printing blood vessels has been perfected by a team of scientists from Harvard, Stanford, MIT and the University of Sydney. Good thing, too: growing human ears on the backs of mice was always super creepy, even if it was necessary.” Business News & Current Events | Observer
EurekAlert: “Researchers have made a giant leap towards the goal of ‘bio-printing’ transplantable tissues and organs for people affected by major diseases and trauma injuries, a new study reports.” http://www.eurekalert.org/pub_releases/2014-06/uos-asc062914.php
Gizmag: “Bertassoni explains that the ultimate aim of the research is for patients to be able to walk into a hospital and have a full organ printed with all the cells, proteins and blood vessels in the right place.” Vascular network bio-printing brings 3D-printed organs one step closer
ScienceDaily: “Lastly they removed the bio-printed fibres to leave behind a network of tiny channels coated with human endothelial cells, which self organized to form stable blood capillaries in less than a week.” Bio-printing transplantable tissues, organs: Another step closer -- ScienceDaily
VentureBeat: “Scientists have had some earlier success growing blood vessels in labs, engineering veins by taking donated blood vessel cells and placing them on tubular, biodegradable scaffolding. But 3D printing technology could make the process substantially more feasible by increasing speed and cutting costs.” Researchers successfully 3D print blood vessels, a 'game changer' for artificial organs | VentureBeat
See also: http://sydney.edu.au/news/84.html?newscategoryid=1&newsstoryid=13715 and Bio-printing transplantable tissues and organs is now a step closer « Kurzweil
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