THE NEWS IN PRINT

Probably the smartest invention ever made is the inkjet printer. The idea of squirting liquid in a desired fashion has turned the world around. We have witnessed and seen an inkjet printer being used to produce unimaginable things. Blood vessels are the latest victims of getting artificially replicated through an inkjet printer.

Japanese researchers have drafted a special inkjet printer at the Kanagawa Academy of Science and Technology in Tokyo, which is built on multi-layer technology and has pin point precision to produce blood vessels from digital designs. They used a printer to inject a combination of cells into a calcium chloride solution to form building blocks of artificial veins and capillaries.

This test is a lab based project and could be the setting stone for crucial life saving replications. Experts in the bio-technology field feel that the realistic target of producing such artificial living cells could be anywhere between 5 and 20 years.

via Print Week

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