Researchers Now Capable of 3D-Printing a Human Heart Using Organic Materials

November 6, 2015

(Thrive Wire) – While 3D printers have recently been used to solve a lot of problems, they had, until now, built things out of almost exclusively plastic and metal — inorganic materials that don’t necessarily adapt well to the human body. But a research team at Carnegie Mellon was recently able to, using a hacked consumer printer, create a heart out of organic material. While it’s not clear that the heart, as built, would function or be accepted by a human body, it’s the first of its kind and a tremendous breakthrough in medicine.