- Organ transplantation
- Drug testing
- Create sustainable food for countries with low food reserves
- Development of robotic methods of functional human tissue and organ bioassembly," Vladimir Mironov of the Medical University of South Carolina wrote in a meeting abstract.
- Stem cell and regenerative medicine
- Application in dental and bone repairs.
- Scan wounds and spray on layers of cells to very rapidly heal them.
- Cosmetic applications: face printers may be created. People could therefore download a face scan from the Internet and have it applied to themselves
- Printing new muscles without the hassle of exercise
- Together with developments in nanotechnology and genetic engineering, bioprinting may also prove a powerful tool for those in pursuit of life extension. * Further the New Industrial Convergence, with doctors, engineers and computer scientists all increasingly learning to manipulate living tissue at its most basic cellular level.
Source:
- http://graphics.tech.uh.edu/student_work/specialty_printing/Specialty_Printing/Future_Bioprinting.html
- http://www.webpronews.com/the-amazing-history-and-future-of-bioprinting-infographic-2012-07
- http://www.explainingthefuture.com/bioprinting.html
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