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Tissue Engineering
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Printing Evolves: An Inkjet for Living Tissue
WSJ piece on inkjet-style bioprinters capable of depositing living cells layer by layer to build tissue structures — a 2012 snapshot of bioprinting before it hit mainstream awareness. The long road from printed tissue samples to transplantable organs had just begun.
Anthony Atala: Printing a Human Kidney
Anthony Atala's TED talk demonstrating a bioprinted kidney scaffold on stage — a landmark moment for regenerative medicine that showed 3D printing of functional human tissue was no longer speculative. Atala's lab at Wake Forest had already implanted lab-grown bladders in patients.