- What if the humans actually start the manufacturing of organs required by the patients?
The life expectancy would
increase, there would not be any need of donors and many endangered species
might be saved from extinction.
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Israel’s School of Molecular Cell Biology and
Biotechnology of University Tel Aviv has made it possible on April 19th
this year. They have 3D printed the first human heart with actual cells, blood
vessels, chambers, and other structures. The team of scientists used fatty
tissues from patients for converting them into stem cells and then processing
it to make “Bioink” which was then used to make a 3D printed heart.
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Many scientists have previously made a 3D heart
structure but it was not as efficient and as real as this one. The size of this
heart is the same as the size that of a Rabbit’s heart. This model still won’t
pump the blood but further promising studies tell that it’ll definitely work as
required, few years down the road.
- Tal Dvir, a researcher with Tel Aviv University
tells that the next step to their research is to “teach” 3D Printed heart to
function normally and once that is done, the team will start the research on
rats through a heart transplant.
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Maybe 10 to 15 years down the road, we can
actually, witness 3D printed organs bring transplanted and increasing the life of the expectancy of humans.
Author: Ajinkya Bhonsle
Author: Ajinkya Bhonsle
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