Bioengineering

A 3D bioprinter in the Skylar-Scott lab prints a sample of heart tissue in 2022.

Moonshot effort aims to bioprint a human heart and implant it in a pig

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Advances in the 3D printing of living tissue – a field known as bioprinting – puts within reach the possibility of fabricating whole organs from scratch and implanting them in living beings. A multidisciplinary team from Stanford received a federal contract to do just that.