A new firm plans to market 3-D printers that might one day be capable of fabricating entire organs.
Organ printing seemed like a crazy sci-fi pipe dream when researchers first started tinkering with it a couple years back. But it's set to make the leap into real-world use in just a few years. As Information Week reports, Organovo, a company based in San Diego, is working on one of the world's first commercial 3-D organ printers. Organovo expects the first production models to ship this year to biomedical researchers. Up until now, Organovo has been angel funded, but soon, they'll be raising Vc funds for an expansion.
The firm's founding brainiac is Gabor Forgacs, a professor of biophysics at the University of Missouri who is one of the founding fathers of the bioprinting discipline. If you've ever used an ink-jet printer, you know the basic technology behind his work. As...
Organ printing seemed like a crazy sci-fi pipe dream when researchers first started tinkering with it a couple years back. But it's set to make the leap into real-world use in just a few years. As Information Week reports, Organovo, a company based in San Diego, is working on one of the world's first commercial 3-D organ printers. Organovo expects the first production models to ship this year to biomedical researchers. Up until now, Organovo has been angel funded, but soon, they'll be raising Vc funds for an expansion.
The firm's founding brainiac is Gabor Forgacs, a professor of biophysics at the University of Missouri who is one of the founding fathers of the bioprinting discipline. If you've ever used an ink-jet printer, you know the basic technology behind his work. As...
- 1/4/2010
- by Cliff Kuang
- Fast Company
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