Printing Human Organs

This is just so weird I can’t believe it’s real.  Had to do a double-check to make sure it wasn’t April Fool’s Day yet :)   Researchers have apparently figured out a way to instruct cells in the body to regenerate themselves.  One guy regrew his chopped-off fingertip by sprinkling some dust with "extracellular matrix" in it on the finger.

Now they’re talking about being able to print organs using cells instead of ink.  Pretty amazing stuff.

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