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Developing sustainable printing inks for functional organs
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The organ transplant waiting list numbers 8,000 people each year in Germany alone, and about 10% of them never receive an organ. 3D bioprinting could help address the global shortage of donor organs by making it possible to automatically produce implantable organs or organ components tailored to individual patients "at the touch of a button." This technology could also be used to print pathological tissue models that replicate diseased tissue, supporting disease research and drug development and
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