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3D-printing human body parts

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Bioprinting has generated bones, cartilage, and some muscles; hearts and livers are still years away.

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  1. 3D Bioprinting System for Human-Scale Tissue Constructs: http://www.nature.com/nbt/journal/v34/n3/full/nbt.3413.html.Google ScholarGoogle Scholar
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        cover image Communications of the ACM
        Communications of the ACM  Volume 60, Issue 10
        October 2017
        90 pages
        ISSN:0001-0782
        EISSN:1557-7317
        DOI:10.1145/3144574
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