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Post 3d printing blood vessal structures with sugar
on: January 25, 2013, 09:42
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They worked with Hive-76 to modify a 3d printer to print sugar. The plans and details are open source. Maybe put it on the list for te second experimental printer?

http://www.adafruit.com/blog/2013/01/24/sweet-success-how-dessert-inspired-my-research-jordan-miller-at-tedxyouthsandiego-2012-3dthursday/

Scientist and open source 3D printing champion Dr. Jordan Miller gives a great talk giving the story of the inspirations that brought him to uniting 3D sugar printing and regenerative medicine.

From the video description:

Using simple yet illustrative analogies to help non-scientists understand his scientific discovery process, Biomedical Researcher Jordan Miller explains to his young audience how he developed vascular structures through 3-D printing. This exciting research is an important complement to advances medical researchers have made in 3-D printing bioidentical human tissue and organs in the lab. It’s a remarkable prospect for the future of organ transplantation.

Deriving inspiration from a cross section of bread and the sugar structure arcing over his dessert, Dr. Miller describes how he combined his background in regenerative medicine, a passion for the maker movement and reliance on worldwide open sourcing to develop viable 3-D printed vascular systems that he demonstrates actually transporting blood.

Jordan Miller, Ph.D. http://twitter.com/jmil is a post-doctoral researcher in the Tissue Microfabrication Laboratory at the University of Pennsylvania. Involved with the 3-D maker community since its infancy, Jordan uses a 3-D printer in his work in biomedical research and regenerative medicine and credits open-source collaboration and the maker movement as important contributors to the success of his research.

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