[hackerspaces] UPenn Researchers Improve Living Tissues With 3D Printed Vascular Networks Made From Sugar

[Jerry Isdale]

3D Print hacker Jordan Miller (et al) have an article in the paywalled journal Nature Materials on their RepRap based bio printer.  The UPenn press release gives lots of info...

   http://www.upenn.edu/pennnews/news/penn-researchers-improve-living-tissues-3d-printed-vascular-networks-made-sugar 

The Hack-a-Day summary embeds a video of the process ...
  http://hackaday.com/2012/07/02/printing-organs-with-a-3d-printer/#more-78565

Jordan has been an active contributor to lots of 3d printing and hackerspace endeavors.
He showed up at Crashspace when we had our first build-a-thon in Dec 2009 to put together a Makerbot Cupcake. His help was critical to getting it working that first week.

Jerry Isdale
http://MauiMakers.com
http://www.mauimakers.com/blog/thursday-public-meeting/

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