Regenerating the Body’s Blood Vessels and Ducts
November 6, 2018 | Terry Sharrer
Regenerating blood vessels from stem cells implanted on an artificial scaffold has been demonstrated, but this piece, from Brigham and Women’s Hospital, describes using continuous 3-D printing to create artificial tubes three layers thick (but apparently not of three different cell types). While this is preclinical work, there’s good reason to suppose this will be used in human medicine before long. MORE
Image Credit: Brigham and Women’s Hospital and 3D printing.com