Researchers Work on 3-D Printing of Living Tissue

Three-dimensional printers are rapidly becoming everyday appliances, much like color printers a couple of decades ago.  Increasingly, the technology is being used in medicine for printing bone replacements.  And now, researchers in South Carolina are working on printing living tissue replacements. Researchers at the Medical University of South Carolina have been working on fabricating living tissue, or biofabrication, since 2003.  Researcher Sarah Grace Dennis says new...

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