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Organovo – a California based biotech firm – is set to begin selling 3-D printed liver tissue by the end of the year.
Organovo – a California based biotech firm – is set to begin selling 3-D printed liver tissue by the end of the year.
According to CNN Money:
Organovo can’t yet print a fully functioning liver. But the company has already been working with a handful of laboratories to manufacture live liver tissue, offering scientists a new way to conduct research.
Michael Renard, executive vice-president of Organovo, said:
This gives researchers the kind of tool that they just haven’t had in the past. They can’t do the kind of experiments on a person that they can do with this tissue in a lab setting.