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07 March 2011
Printing a human kidney: Anthony Atala on TED.com
Fresh from TED2011 last week: 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. Using similar technology, Dr. Atala’s young patient Luke Massella received an engineered bladder 10 years ago; we meet him onstage. (Recorded at TED2011, March 2011, in Long Beach, California. Duration: 17:24)
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Mar 19 2011
Food for thought!
It is great that this technology is capable of printing organs in 3D, and can create parts of organs like bones, or a bladder wall, or a trachea that can be incorporated into the body and provide some kind of very useful structural support.
What would be amazing is the possibility of creating a functional solid organ, such as a kidney that works. That will be an awesome development, when it comes. -
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Rakesh Kochhar
I am one of the fortunate recipient of a kidney organ transplant and believe me the trauma of 3-4 times a week dialysis with no respite but the hope of finding a kidney donor is what kept me going through 4years prior to transplant. This advancement of printing a kidney could be a life changer for ESRD patients and provide them the motivation they need knowing a breakthrough is a few years away.Anthony Atala is blessed for showing this path of hope to chronically ill kidney patients