The Future of Organs

We're getting good at making tissues in a dish while making miniaturized tissues that are really, really small. 3D printing has helped build scaffolds around which we can build multi tissue mini organoids they're called. But I think what will happen sooner is that we can grow and it is happening now, this research where you can grow human organs from human stem cells in other animals, like pigs,. And then that's easier because it has all the other physiology and is probably way cheaper than doing it all in the dish.

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