Last month we highlighted the use of 3-D prototyping to create sculptures out of sugar - Print Me Something Yummy! - and this month the same technology is used to print human tissue. New Scientist Tech, online magazine, published the latest developments. While experiments with “bionk” - bio-ink - has been going on for several years, James Yoo at the Institute of Regenerative Medicine at Wake Forest University, NC, has developed a process that produces multiple types of cells at the same time, and he applied for a “Tissue Printer” patent. (Read the article)

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