Via Cleveland Clinic ‏@ClevelandClinic tweet - "Did you know 3D printing makes more personal?"

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Via Cleveland Clinic ‏@ClevelandClinic tweet - “Did you know 3D printing makes #surgery more personal?”

Here’s a microbusiness thatsoon will have booming potential as the Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services look for ways to slash costs.

“Karl West, MS — biomedical engineer, director of Medical Device Solutions and head of Lerner Research Institute’s 3D printing lab — calls 3D printing “the wave of the future of healthcare.” West explains that the technology has already been used to create artificial airways and blood vessels, plus models of diseased organs.”

“Some researchers are taking 3D printing a step further by using human cells as layering material. The implications of this “bioprinting” are almost unfathomable. We might one day be able to create living, functional organs in a laboratory. Although we have made remarkable advancements in organ transplantation over the past 60 years, there are still issues, such as a massive organ shortage. Bioprinting could help overcome this issue.”
http://health.clevelandclinic.org/2013/12/how-3d-printing-makes-surgery-more-personal/

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Before bioprinting body parts and whole organs can be commercialize, a strategy fo complying with FDA Quality System and current Good Manufacturing Practice regulations will have to be developed for every individual output.

No two trachea are alike, nor are any two coronary blood vessels (although a standard diameter vessel of any given length could be used instead of an exact match of a blocked artery) are alike. FDA will be extremely cautious in its premarket approval of the “safety and effectiveness” of any bioprinted structure intended for use in a patient. Accordingly, a compliance plan will have to be as rigorous as will be FDA scrutiny.

“Rocket science” ain’t got nothin’ on bioprinting. ; )