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- Surgeons at a hospital in Japan recently faced a dilemma before transplanting a parent's liver into a child: How exactly to trim the organ to fit the space in the child's smaller cavity while preserving its functions.
So they took a knife to a three-dimensional replica of the donor's liver built by a machine that resembles an office printer. The model helped the doctors figure out where to carve it, leading to a successful transplant last month.
While the impact of bioprinting is still a long way off, this is an interesting way for 3D printers to make a difference medicinally in the interim.
ButterflyEffect · 4594 days ago · link ·
It's so interesting to see the various applications of 3-D printing. It seems like it will almost be limitless given it's current development, though more complex things such as bioprinting or other science based applications may never fully be realized.