Wake Forest teams win a NASA prize for 3D printing human liver tissue - Engadget
A pair of research teams from Wake Forest University's Institute for Regenerative Medicine have topped NASA's long-running Vascular Tissue Challenge by 3D printing a biologically viable chunk of human liver.
“It will be exceptional to hear about the first artificial organ transplant one day and think this novel NASA challenge might have played a small role in making it happen.â€.
"The value of an artificial tissue depends entirely on how well it mimics what happens in the body,†Lynn Harper, challenge administrator at NASA’s Ames Research Center, added