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Companies Organovo managed to "print" operating within 40 days liver samples

Of course, the entire liver of the print as ready-to-organ transplant, is still too early to say. But scientists and engineers have chosen to address this issue closer. For example, a startup Organovo, dealing with just the solution of such issues, was able to show excellent results: the samples "printed" using the 3D-bioprinter liver functioned normally within 40 days





At the same time these samples do not just live, but also shows the standard for the liver response to all sorts of harmful substances (harmful to the human body). It is worth noting that this same company in April reported the "print" liver samples, which could operate within five days. As you can see, in less than six months Organovo experts have made impressive progress.

By the way, is now the main problem, which leads to the current inability to print an entire liver - the blood vessels that permeate the body. Of course, in Organovo learned to print samples of the liver (from living cells, layering them on top of each other), but the blood vessels, the capillaries, print, still nobody knows.

However, experts are trying to overcome this problem, so that the hope for a speedy solution is. Organovo plans to use its samples of liver «3D Human Liver Project» in the next year. This project envisages the creation of parts of human bodies, which will be tested the effect of a particular medicine. The results of these tests should be, according to experts, much more reliable than tests carried out on animals.

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