![]() This promises improvements in the time required for pre-operative graft preparation.'įinally, it avoids removing healthy sections of skin from patients all together. As the creators explain, 'our ability to localize high concentrations of human cells rather than homogeneously populating the entire sheet has the added advantage of reducing by up to 75% the number of cells required. Not only will the PrintAlive use cell structures from the patients themselves to reduce the risk of infection or even rejection by the host, it will also reduce costs through efficiency. As the creators noted, 'in severe burn injuries where both the epidermal and dermal layers of the skin are destroyed, prompt wound closure is critical for favourable patient outcomes and reduced mortality rates after burn injuries, patient survival is inversely proportional to the time required for wound stabilization and coverage, and the mortality rate increases by 10% for every additional 10% surface area burn.'īut there are more advantages. ![]() This is a severely debilitating problem that needs to be overcome, as help simply comes too late for many victims. Most significantly, this method can produce transplantable skin cells great quantities in a relatively short period of time, whereas other methods of growing cells often take weeks to cultivate. It therefore not only has the potential to improve the lives and conditions of burn victims everywhere, it can also save the lives of patients in a critical condition. For the PrintAlive Bioprinter is a 3D printer that is capable of producing artificial skin grafts that avoids all the nasty consequences of skin transplants. ![]() This very promising 3D printer first revealed itself to the whole world at the Canadian leg of the 2014 James Dyson Awards, an international design contest for engineering students, where it won first place for a very good reason. While much of bioprinting technology is still theoretical or years away, one revolutionary innovation is coming tantalisingly close to being integrated into medical treatment: the PrintAlive 3D bioprinter. 3D Bioprinting is, thanks to its many medical possibilities, one of the most crucial innovations that 3D printing technology is bringing into our lives. ![]()
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