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Print Your Own Organs!

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  14 March 2018

Stephen W. Carmichael
Stephen W. Carmichael*
Affiliation:
Mayo Clinic
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[email protected]

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Would you believe it might be possible to build organs using an ink-jet printer? In a remarkable pair of articles, Thomas Boland and his collaborators describe a modified printer that promises to be abie to do exactly that.

The first article of this pair describes the software and hardware to arrange cells in two dimensions, just as a printer arranges droplets of ink on a fiat piece of paper. The software that normally controls the position of a drop of ink is modified to position a drop containing one or two cells in suspension onto a substrate.

Type
Research Article
Information
Microscopy Today , Volume 11 , Issue 5 , August 2003 , pp. 3 - 7
Copyright
Copyright © Microscopy Society of America 2003

Footnotes

1.

The author gratefully acknowledges Dr. Thomas Boland for reviewing this article.

References

2. Wilson, C.W., Jr., and Boiand, T.. Cell and organ printing 1: Protein and cell printers, Anat. Rec. 272A:491-496, 2003; Boland, T, V. Miranov.A. Gutowska, E.A. Roth, and R.R. Markwald, Cell and organ printing 2: Fusion of cell aggregates In three-dimensional gels, Anat Rec. 272A: 497-502, 2003Google Scholar