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Anthony Atala：列印人類腎臟

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TED2011

• March 2011

外科醫師 Anthony Atala 展示了一項未來可能用以解決器官捐贈問題的實驗初期成果：一個使用活細胞輸出可移植腎臟的 3D 印表機。十年前，Atala 醫師的年輕病人 Luke Massella 接受了以類似科技所製造的膀胱移植。今天，他本人亦將會出現在講台上。

外科醫師 Anthony Atala 展示了一項未來可能用以解決器官捐贈問題的實驗初期成果：一個使用活細胞輸出可移植腎臟的 3D 印表機。十年前，Atala 醫師的年輕病人 Luke Massella 接受了以類似科技所製造的膀胱移植。今天，他本人亦將會出現在講台上。

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Anthony Atala asks, "Can we grow organs instead of transplanting them?" His lab at the Wake Forest Institute for Regenerative Medicine is doing just that -- engineering over 30 tissues and whole organs.

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Printing organs is a rapidly changing field of medical research. Click for more details.

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