Printing 3D Bones
January 17, 2012 | Terry Sharrer
If you have to see something to believe it, be sure to check out the video at this site. It shows how materials engineers at Washington State University are able to use inkjet printing, with metal or ceramic powder instead of ink, to fabricate bone and tooth scaffoldings that allow natural tissue to fill in and eventually replace the printed material. This should give hospital administrators a new genre of innovations to resist. MORE