Machining the Body :The Scientist [9/5/2005]

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by Aileen Constans

Machining the Body

Rapid prototyping techniques promise better design and fabrication of tissue-engineering scaffolds

Email: Aileen Constans - aconstans@the-scientist.com
The Scientist 2005, 19(9):30

Two years ago, cell biologist Vladimir Mironov of the Medical University of South Carolina, Charleston, created a buzz in the tissue-engineering world by predicting that in the not-so-distant future, scientists would be able to print whole replacement organs, and eventually whole bodies, using machines similar to desktop printers. Whether this scenario will ever happen is still a matter of debate, but three-dimensional printing technologies are currently creating a mini-revolution in tissue engineering.


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