Ear 3D-printed from living tissue transplanted

[Jan]

Doctors successfully transplant first ear 3D-printed from living tissue

In a world-first, doctors have successfully transplanted a 3D-printed ear, made from living tissue cells, onto a woman born with a rare deformity.

The patient was born with microtia, a birth defect resulting in the ear's external portion not forming correctly. It can also affect hearing.

 

[konfab]

3D printed piels will be the inevitable endgame of this technology.

 

[Totempole]

3D printed piels will be the inevitable endgame of this technology.

No doubt.

 

[kazeus]

3D printed piels will be the inevitable endgame of this technology.

With the rate of botched circumcision in the eastern cape - would be something necessary.
A few years ago Tygerberg hospital even did the first penile transplant (paving the way for you to really consider saying that you wouldn't "do" her even with someone else's piel)