A slice of 3D-printed liver offers the promise of speeding up the discovery of new drugs and paving the way toward eventually growing a full-size, transplantable liver.

Thanks to the Living Heart Project, 3D virtual reality serves as a powerful mechanism for allowing medical teams to share a common visual experience.

Creepy. The liver naturally regenerates itself, as we’ve tested many a weekend after a big night out. That's what makes it great for this project, that and its simplicity. The latest printed liver was ...

InSphero’s new microtissue platform incorporates hepatocytes from multiple donors to exemplify genetic diversity and enable more predictive modeling of drug-induced liver injury.

In early project work, primary human hepatocytes (PHH), cells isolated from human liver donors, outperformed tumor-derived or other immortalized liver cell lines in terms of metabolic activity but ...

A 3D printing start-up has managed to generate a slice of functioning liver. Organovo used layers of living cells to print liver able to last up to 40 days. Flickr/PHC Images The success of the ...

Nanoengineers at the University of California, San Diego have developed a 3D-printed device inspired by the liver to remove dangerous toxins from the blood. The device, which is designed to be ...

Scientists are already 3D printing different kinds of tissue, from skin to livers, and someday they say it will be commonplace to simply print out a body part when needed.

If you thought 3D printing human organs was a sci-fi fantasy you’d never see in your lifetime, prepare to be shocked. We’ve already seen basic layers of liver cells printed, with the created ...

Advances in the 3D printing of human tissue have moved fast enough that San Diego-based bio-printing company Organovo now expects to unveil the world’s first printed organ — a human liver ...

That's what makes it great for this project, that and its simplicity. The latest printed liver was able to survive for 40 days fully functioning. It filtered out toxins and drugs to keep in nutrients.