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A team of doctors, researchers, technicians, and students at the Cardiovascular Innovation Institute (CII) [...] stands at the forefront of research in 3D bioprinting, as they methodically take steps toward printing a working human heart.[Currently, telling their BioAssembly Tool what to print is] similar to a computer programmer writing in assembly language to give a computer system an exact set of instructions. It's an incredibly laborious process.
[The team is] about to get a new 3D bioprinting solution that will [significantly] accelerate [its] work.
This new solution's hardware, BioAssemblyBot [...] is far more precise than BAT. [The software, Tissue Structure Information Modeling], takes the manual coding out of the process and replaces it with something that resembles desktop image editing software. It allows the medical researchers to:
— scan and manipulate 3D models of organs and tissues
— use those to make decisions in diagnosing patients
— use those same scans to model tissues (and eventually organs) to print using the BAB. [...]
Article in full here:
http://www.techrepublic.com/article/new-3d-bioprinter-to-reproduce-human-organs/
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