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For all you science geeks out there, you're going to love this.
Actually, this entire website has fascinating videos. If you've never seen it, it's worth a click.

Anthony Atala: Printing a human kidney

Surgeon Anthony Atala demonstrates an early-stage experiment that could someday solve the organ-donor problem: a 3D printer that uses living cells to output a transplantable kidney. Using similar technology, Dr. Atala's young patient Luke Massella received an engineered bladder 10 years ago; we meet him onstage.

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. Full bio »
http://www.ted.com/talks/lang/en/anthony_atala_printing_a_human_kidney.html

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