3D printed organs offer alternative to animal testing

Posted on 15 Nov 2016 by Aiden Burgess

There is no doubt that 3D printing has become an integral technology in a number of industries due to its ability to quickly create custom parts, prototype designs and tools.

Now it has the potential to help shape the future of drug testing. Harvard University researchers have created the first entirely 3D printed organs on a chip with integrated sensing. The ‘heart-on-a-chip’ is built by a fully automated digital manufacturing procedure and can be quickly fabricated and customised to allow researchers to easily collect reliable data for short…

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