Ted Talk 3d Printed Kidney

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Ted talk 3d printed kidney. A 3d printer that uses living cells to output a transplantable kidney. From ted surgeon anthony atala demonstrates an early stage experiment that could someday solve the organ donor problem. Using similar technology dr. Atalas young patient luke massella received an engineered bladder 10 years ago.

Losing a limb was an all too common fact in the civil war torn region. Combine this with the decreasing cost of owning a printer as well as the cheaper cost of manufacturing in general an. Updates below for more details surgeon anthony atala demonstrates an early stage experiment that could someday solve the organ donor problem. In this talk from tedxcambridge he describes how he turned to 3d printing to create limbs that not only match a persons body but their personality as well.

But the aftermath w. A 3d printer that uses living cells to output a transplantable kidney. A 3d printer that uses living cells to output a transplantable kidney. Ted talk subtitles and transcript.

This talk was given in 2011 and this field of science has developed quickly since then. At tedmed he shows footage of his bio engineers working with some of its sci fi gizmos including an oven like bioreactor preheat to 986 f and a machine that prints human tissue. From artificial prosthetics to very real human kidneys to filigree skull sculptures the number and variety of applications for this technology are growing layer by printed layer. Anthony atalas state of the art lab grows human organs from muscles to blood vessels to bladders and more.

It is the dawn of the era of 3d printing.