Printing Technology Plus Organic Chemistry Equals Better and Faster Health Care in the Near Future?

Different hospitals world wide normally does treating wounds of their patients, curing diseases, perform surgeries such as organ replacement, and more, but what about printing different body parts? Sounds weird right? You can ask surgeon Anthony Atala, one of the people behind this great innovation in health care.

Back in March 2011 at Long Beach California, USA, Anthony Atala and other members on their group, introduce this new kind of technology that can be used for treating wounds and replacing different body parts using an inkjet printer. But instead of using OEM's like HP Q6470A toner or remanufactured inkjet cartridges, they use cells and other living organisms to treat patients.

This printer functions like a combination of 3D and inkjet printer that scans the patient before curing their wounds externally, but treating the internal part makes them use CT scan to create a 3D object that will enable them to print it out. Printing can take hours but it can help save many lives, such as printing kidney that could take 7 hours in printing but it can help people to survive (printed kidney structures are early prototypes that are being studied experimentally and are years away from functional and clinical use").

In testing this technology makes Luke M. a college student survive death. He suffers in kidney failure but luckily he is the one of ten people choosed to undergo a serious operation using this kind of technology from Wake Forest Institute for Regenerative Medicine. Now, his good health condition is back and do whatever he wants to do.

Here is the video from TED about the printer that can save more lives in the future.



For more information about this video you can visit TED.com, but if you want to received discounts in printing supplies you can visit TonerBoss Coupons.

 

Denise Rasalan
Owner, Great Prints Solutions

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