Surgeons in Australia say they have performed the first heart transplant using a “dead heart”.
Donor hearts from adults usually come from people who are confirmed as brain dead but with a heart still beating.
A prosthetic human heart which is “as close as you can get” to the real organ has been made using a new 3D printing technique, Nottingham university said.
The heart’s creator, Richard Arm, said the silicone gel model mimics not only the texture of a real heart, but its inner workings and structure.
The Medicrea group, a company that specializes in the development of innovative surgical technologies for the treatment of complex spinal pathologies, today announced that a surgeon in Lyon, France has performed the world’s first spinal fusion surgery using customized spine cages created with a 3-D printer.
The human mechanism is capable of some amazing functions, but this one boggles the mind. Researchers are saying they’ve developed 3D printed iron–manganese structures for use as bone scaffold material and it actually biodegrades inside the body when their work is done.
The BIOFABRIS is a National Institute of S&T in Biomanufacturing of multidisciplinary,
located at the Chemical Engineering Campus of UNICAMP, character that aims to integrate computational tools, synthesis and development of new biomaterials and application of engineering techniques to obtain biomedical devices (prostheses and orthopedic orthoses) and substitutes for live biological tissues or defective or missing human organs.