Organovo Set to Sell 3-D Printed Organs

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.

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