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.”.

"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