Amazing 3D Printer Can Create Ears, Jawbone, and Muscle

Biologists at Wake Forest University have successfully 3D printed living tissue structures that can function as bone and muscle replacements for humans.

Completed ear and jaw bone structures printed with the Integrated Tissue-Organ Printing System Wake Forest Institute for Regenerative Medicine

Biologists at Wake Forest University have successfully 3-D printed living tissue structures that can function as bone and muscle replacements for humans.

A custom 3-D printer created ear, bone, and muscle structures that, when implanted into animals, matured into functional tissue and developed a system of blood vessels.

This novel tissue and organ printer is an important advance in our quest to make replacement tissue for patients.

— Anthony Atala, director, Wake Forest Institute for Regenerative Medicine