3D-printed artificial kideny:save live in future

Researchers using 3D printing to develop first of its type implantable artificial kidney based on microchips.
the 3D printing application with the highest revolutionary potential is the 3D bioprinting of organ tissue.
the research team from Vanderbilt University led by professor William Fissel is reminding us that there are other ways to create artificial organs.
they are working on implantable kidney replacements for patients currently hooked onto dialysis machines.
this project could change the lives of kidney disease patients.
when you read the US Organ Procurement and Transplantation Network, there are over 100,000 patients on the waiting for a kidney transplant, but less than 20,000 organs are available every year.

more steps are needed before they can make artificial kidney replacement parts, but the result is so important because it means that for the 1st time researchers have used 3-D printing to make kidney tissue organ that functions like the real thing. The inventors say that in the near word the artificial tissue can be used outside the body to assist in people who have lost renal function, and for testing the toxicity of new drugs
The 3-D-printed kidney tissue is the work of the Jennifer Lewis lab at Harvard, which has developed an innovative approach to “bioprinting” tissue organ. The technique allows researchers to print complex structures found in different types of human tissue, as well as vascular systems necessary to keep such tissue organ alive. The printing method uses multiple kinds of gel-like inks.After printing, the researchers removed one of the links, leaving hollow tubes. Then they add cells, which mature into tissue.

Three year old girl from Northern Ireland has become the first to have a life-saving adult kidney transplant, using 3D printing.
it was the 1st time in the world that 3D printing has been used to aid kidney transplant surgery involving an adult donor and a child recipient.