RepRap Prints Blood Vessel Networks out of Sugar
3D printable organs are in the works, but one thing holding researchers back is the lack of a way to print reliable vascular networks within the organs. If the blood can’t flow through correctly, the printed organs will fail. Researchers at the University of Pennsylvania and the Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT) believe they have found a way to produce dissolvable scaffolds that will create hollows within printable organs. Those hollows will mimic our own blood vessel networks and may be the key to successfully printing larger and more complex human organs for transplant.
