Voice and Exit: How 3D Bioprinting will transform Medicine

"And no one puts new wine into old wineskins; or else the new wine bursts the wineskins, the wine is spilled, and the wineskins are ruined. But new wine must be put into new wineskins."
Mark 2:22

Laura Bosworth explains how 3D printing can make organ shortages a thing of the past, starting with Breast Cancer survivors:



Highlights:

• 3D printing has been around for decades, what's changed is that the cost has dropped.

• Similar to the replicator in Star Trek.

• Working on 3D printing food.
• Modern Meadow -- Using cow and pig cells to 3D print pieces of meat.

• 3D printers have been used to create custom hearing aids for decades.

• Custom printing for vets who need to have skulls rebuilt.

• Functioning kidneys printed in China.

• Functioning livers printed in U.S.

• 18 people a day currently die due to organ shortages.

• It could take decades until this is widely available.

• Nipples for breast cancer survivors is the first step.

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