Artificial Blood Vessels Created On a 3D Printer 33
rallymatte writes "A team at Fraunhofer Institute in Germany has managed to create artificial blood vessels with a 3D printer that may come to be used for transplants of lab-created organs. From the article: 'To print something as small and complex as a blood vessel, the scientists combined the 3D printing technology with two-photon polymerisation — shining intense laser beams onto the material to stimulate the molecules in a very small focus point.'"
Ew... bad mental image. (Score:4, Funny)
All of a sudden I had this image of printing kidneys, blood vessels and all, shooting out of a laser printer because someone clicked the wrong application.
"I said print out my organizer not organs!"