{"id":765,"date":"2011-03-09T03:00:00","date_gmt":"2011-03-09T03:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.shapeways.com\/blog\/archives\/765-3d-printing-human-kidneys-not-our-latest-material-launch.html"},"modified":"2014-07-03T17:08:44","modified_gmt":"2014-07-03T17:08:44","slug":"3d-printing-human-kidneys-not-our-latest-material-launch","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.shapeways.com\/blog\/3d-printing-human-kidneys-not-our-latest-material-launch","title":{"rendered":"3D Printing Human Kidneys (not our latest material launch)"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>This <a target=\"_blank\" href=\"http:\/\/www.ted.com\/talks\/anthony_atala_printing_a_human_kidney.html\">video<\/a> has been doing the rounds of the blogosphere over the past few days but for anyone who has missed it so far it is worth checking out.&nbsp; Surgeon Anthony Atala demonstrates an early-stage experiment that could someday solve the organ-donor problem: a 3D printer that uses living cells to output a transplantable kidney. If you are impatient skip to around 7:00 to see a nice desktop inkjet printer hack used to implant bone into a patient, and then goes on to show a <strike>kidney being printed<\/strike> a kidney-shaped mold being printed on stage and explained how one day &ndash; many years from now &ndash; the technology might be used to print actual organs. (update thanks to Glen Slingsby)<\/p>\n<p><object width=\"446\" height=\"326\"><param name=\"movie\" value=\"http:\/\/video.ted.com\/assets\/player\/swf\/EmbedPlayer.swf\"><param name=\"allowFullScreen\" value=\"true\"><param name=\"allowScriptAccess\" value=\"always\"><param name=\"wmode\" value=\"transparent\"><param name=\"bgColor\" value=\"#ffffff\"><param name=\"flashvars\" value=\"vu=http:\/\/video.ted.com\/talks\/dynamic\/AnthonyAtala_2011-medium.flv&amp;su=http:\/\/images.ted.com\/images\/ted\/tedindex\/embed-posters\/AnthonyAtala-2011.embed_thumbnail.jpg&amp;vw=432&amp;vh=240&amp;ap=0&amp;ti=1088&amp;introDuration=15330&amp;adDuration=4000&amp;postAdDuration=830&amp;adKeys=talk=anthony_atala_printing_a_human_kidney;year=2011;theme=new_on_ted_com;theme=might_you_live_a_great_deal_longer;theme=medicine_without_borders;theme=a_taste_of_ted2011;event=TED2011;&amp;preAdTag=tconf.ted\/embed;tile=1;sz=512x288;\"><embed width=\"446\" height=\"326\" src=\"http:\/\/video.ted.com\/assets\/player\/swf\/EmbedPlayer.swf\" pluginspace=\"http:\/\/www.macromedia.com\/go\/getflashplayer\" type=\"application\/x-shockwave-flash\" wmode=\"transparent\" bgcolor=\"#ffffff\" allowfullscreen=\"true\" allowscriptaccess=\"always\" flashvars=\"vu=http:\/\/video.ted.com\/talks\/dynamic\/AnthonyAtala_2011-medium.flv&amp;su=http:\/\/images.ted.com\/images\/ted\/tedindex\/embed-posters\/AnthonyAtala-2011.embed_thumbnail.jpg&amp;vw=432&amp;vh=240&amp;ap=0&amp;ti=1088&amp;introDuration=15330&amp;adDuration=4000&amp;postAdDuration=830&amp;adKeys=talk=anthony_atala_printing_a_human_kidney;year=2011;theme=new_on_ted_com;theme=might_you_live_a_great_deal_longer;theme=medicine_without_borders;theme=a_taste_of_ted2011;event=TED2011;\"><\/embed><\/object><\/p>\n<p>Anthony Atala is the director of the Wake Forest Institute for Regenerative Medicine, where his work focuses on growing and regenerating tissues and organs. His team engineered the first lab-grown organ to be implanted into a human, a bladder,and is developing experimental fabrication technology that can &#8220;print&#8221; human tissue on demand.<\/p>\n<p><!-- s9ymdb:4212 --><!-- s9ymdb:4212 --><!-- s9ymdb:4212 --><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"320\" height=\"212\" src=\"https:\/\/www.shapeways.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/03\/half_novogenmmx2.png\" style=\"border: 0px none ; padding-left: 5px; padding-right: 5px;\">The printing of organs was also discussed in the <a target=\"_blank\" href=\"http:\/\/www.economist.com\/node\/15543683\">Economist<\/a> issue that focused on the <a target=\"_blank\" href=\"https:\/\/www.shapeways.com\/blog\/archives\/743-The-Future-of-Manufacturing-3D-Printing-Makes-the-Cover-of-the-Economist.html\">3D printing industry<\/a> and a <a href=\"http:\/\/www.time.com\/time\/specials\/packages\/article\/0,28804,2029497_2030617_2029812,00.html\" target=\"_blank\">Time Magazine<\/a> article from November 2010 featured <a href=\"http:\/\/www.invetech.com.au\/\" target=\"_blank\">Invetech<\/a> and <a href=\"http:\/\/www.organovo.com\/\" target=\"_blank\">Organovo<\/a>, a couple of the companies leading the way in Bio-3D-Printing.<\/p>\n<p>I guess now we have to ask the usual question, what would YOU 3D print if\/when Shapeways starts bio-printing?<\/p><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>This video has been doing the rounds of the blogosphere over the past few days but for anyone who has&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":12,"featured_media":5057,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[],"tags":[482,477],"class_list":["post-765","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","tag-6-inspiration","tag-1-whats-hot"],"thumbnail":false,"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO Premium plugin v23.9 (Yoast SEO v23.9) - 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