I have been interested in three diminsional printing for some time. Now comes news that the idea is being used to print living tissue; PCWorld.com - Inkjet Printers Offer Biology Breakthrough
In the name of science, researchers have developed a way to print sheets of solid animal tissue by filling Hewlett-Packard and Canon inkjet cartridges with animal cells, or "bio-ink." Using basic design software, often AutoCAD, scientists like Thomas Boland, an assistant professor of bioengineering, are designing and generating tissue that could someday save heart patients who need new cardiac tissue. "We've created cardiac tissue successfully," Boland says. "It actually beats in the petri dish."
