California-based regenerative medicine company Organovo and Invetech, a pacesetter in new product development and custom automation for the biomedical, industrial and consumer markets, can take pride in having developed a prototype machine that can grow new arteries.
Researchers at the medicine firm believe that the some procedures could be implemented to create new organs.
That’s the “bioprinter” for you. Based on 3D laser printing technology, the “bioprinter”, to create body parts, puts living tissue together instead of combining layers of plastic and metal.
Partnership bears fruit
Dr. Fred Davis, president of Invetech said, "Building human organs cell-by-cell was considered science fiction not that long ago.”
