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Scientists have created a mobile bioprinter that when filled with a patient's cells, prints skin directly into a wound.
We've been writing about 3D printing for what seems like forever. From its sustainable benefits to its ability to spit out $4000 tiny homes and grand architectural statements alike. Not to mention entire colonies on Mars.
But now additive manufacturing has crept into a new realm with the first-ever mobile bioprinter; it doesn't layer plastic into design shapes, but rather, prints skin onto wounds. It's not the first time that 3D printing has been used in medicine – they've used it to create organs and vessels and limbs. But the practicality and efficacy of a mobile skin printer surely seems like it could come in handy.
"Imagine a day when a bioprinter filled with a patient's own cells can be wheeled right to the bedside to treat large wounds or burns by printing skin, layer by layer, to begin the healing process," notes a statement from Wake Forest School of Medicine. "That day is not far off."
Scientists from the school's Institute for Regenerative Medicine (WFIRM) have created the mobile skin bioprinting system that sounds even more futuristic than a 3D-printed colony on Mars.
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Scientists have created a mobile bioprinter that when filled with a patient's cells, prints skin directly into a wound.
We've been writing about 3D printing for what seems like forever. From its sustainable benefits to its ability to spit out $4000 tiny homes and grand architectural statements alike. Not to mention entire colonies on Mars.
But now additive manufacturing has crept into a new realm with the first-ever mobile bioprinter; it doesn't layer plastic into design shapes, but rather, prints skin onto wounds. It's not the first time that 3D printing has been used in medicine – they've used it to create organs and vessels and limbs. But the practicality and efficacy of a mobile skin printer surely seems like it could come in handy.
"Imagine a day when a bioprinter filled with a patient's own cells can be wheeled right to the bedside to treat large wounds or burns by printing skin, layer by layer, to begin the healing process," notes a statement from Wake Forest School of Medicine. "That day is not far off."
Scientists from the school's Institute for Regenerative Medicine (WFIRM) have created the mobile skin bioprinting system that sounds even more futuristic than a 3D-printed colony on Mars.
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