Bioprinting has been all over the news in the past several years with headline-worthy breakthroughs like printed human skin , synthetic bones , and even a fully functional mouse thyroid glan d . 3D printing paved the way for bioprinting thanks to the printers’ unique ability to recreate human tissue structures; their software can be written to ‘stack’ cells in precise patterns as directed by a digital model, and they can produce tissue in just hours and make numerous identical samples.

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