pavelcherepan Posted March 20, 2015 Posted March 20, 2015 A group of Swiss scientists has developed a technique of printing cartilage using a 3D printer. Not only that they can print transplants but they print those from a mix of bio-polymers and living cells of the person who this transplant is tailored for. So now if something goes wrong with your nose, for example, they can re-create a 3D model of it using your medical records and them print with your actual living cells being embedded into the transplant which is supposed to greatly reduce the chances of transplant rejection. They have yet to test transplantation on animals which is going to happen sometime this year. Here's the article about them.
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