Showing posts with label biology. Show all posts
Showing posts with label biology. Show all posts

Tuesday, February 2, 2010

Fascinating Improvements in TIssue Reconstruction


Anthony Atala of the Wake Forest Institute for Regenerative Medicine shows the work of "seven hundred researchers over a period of twenty years," and where that has gotten the institute and the state of tissue regeneration. This video is incredible. My favorite part:

"(As you watch an inkjet printer shoot back and forth) This is actually one of our strategies. We use a printer. And instead of using ink -- you just saw an inkjet cartridge --we just use cells. This is actually your typical desktop printer... it's actually printing a two chamber heart one layer at a time."