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How Dr. Anthony Atala Grows Organs: "Like Baking a Cake"

Dr. Anthony Atala has one of the more sci-fi sounding jobs on the planet: He grows heart valves, muscles, and fingers for human transplant. Even more fascinating, Dr. Atala's patients are often babies--he's a pediatric surgeon, and ...READ»

3D Printers to Make Replacement Bones

Just last week I wrote about advances in medical technology that were making print-out flesh and organs possible. Now they're printing out bones. The tests at Insel hospital, Switzerland, were so successful that an exact printout ...READ»