Everyday, people get physically hurt, wounded, and can come close to death. One’s life could be in such traumatic condition that he or she requires an organ transplant. An organ transplant is taking an organ from another body, or one from a donor, and moving it into the body of a person that needs that certain organ. This procedure is necessary when a specific organ of the body is not doing its job correctly because it was either genetically modified wrong during birth or it has suffered damage throughout its lifespan. When people need an organ transplants there can be a long waiting list to receiving certain organs. Also if a person needs a specific organ and it is not available in a timely manner, the person could die. For this exact
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Three dimensional organ printing has been done by making regular objects out of materials such as plastic or molten metals. Wake Forest University in North Carolina decided to take that one step further by being the first group of researchers to print out human tissue. Human tissue is the basis of all the organs in the body and without it there would be no way to produce three dimensional organs. Since human organs can not be constructed out of plastics and molten metals, Wake Forest’s printers use what are called hydrogels, which are water based solutions containing human cells. The printer possesses multiple nozzles that either have hydrogels, or biodegradable materials that give the printed printed tissue strength and structure (Griggs). Back in 1999, “scientists at the Wake Forest Institute for Regenerative Medicine used a 3-D printer to build a synthetic scaffold of a human bladder. They then coated the scaffold with cells taken from their patients and successfully grew working organs” (Harris). How the printer works is, if a patient needs a kidney, the three dimensional printer takes a sample of the patient’s cell that it needs to replicate. Therefore all the cells in the body are the same and the 3-D printed cells do not cause any disfunction. The printer, which has multiple nozzles containing the sample of the patients cells, hydrogels, and biodegradable materials, then produces the
Three dimensional organ printing has been done by making regular objects out of materials such as plastic or molten metals. Wake Forest University in North Carolina decided to take that one step further by being the first group of researchers to print out human tissue. Human tissue is the basis of all the organs in the body and without it there would be no way to produce three dimensional organs. Since human organs can not be constructed out of plastics and molten metals, Wake Forest’s printers use what are called hydrogels, which are water based solutions containing human cells. The printer possesses multiple nozzles that either have hydrogels, or biodegradable materials that give the printed printed tissue strength and structure (Griggs). Back in 1999, “scientists at the Wake Forest Institute for Regenerative Medicine used a 3-D printer to build a synthetic scaffold of a human bladder. They then coated the scaffold with cells taken from their patients and successfully grew working organs” (Harris). How the printer works is, if a patient needs a kidney, the three dimensional printer takes a sample of the patient’s cell that it needs to replicate. Therefore all the cells in the body are the same and the 3-D printed cells do not cause any disfunction. The printer, which has multiple nozzles containing the sample of the patients cells, hydrogels, and biodegradable materials, then produces the