The printed thyroid gland functions no worse than the real one
The printed thyroid gland is not rejected and functions.
"This is a global breakthrough in science and, without exaggeration, an epoch–making event that opens a new era in medicine," comments Kirill Kayem, Vice President, Executive Director of the biomedical technologies cluster of the Skolkovo Foundation. – It means that in the foreseeable future, doctors will learn to "print" organs that can fully function in the human body. At the same time, this is evidence that 3D Bioprinting Solutions occupies a leading position in the rapidly developing field of bioprinting and biofacturing."
On March 15 of this year, 3D Bioprinting Solutions printed an organ construct of the mouse thyroid gland using the first Russian bioprinter FABION. The printed glands were transplanted to animals, and during the experiment that lasted several months, the printed constructs took root and proved their viability.
The results of the experiment were presented to the scientific community – it happened on November 8, 2015 at the international conference on biofacturing in Utrecht (Netherlands), where the scientific director of 3D Bioprinting Solutions, Vladimir Mironov, made a report "Bioprinting the mouse thyroid gland". The participants of the conference – the world's leading experts in the field of three–dimensional bioprinting and biofacturing - highly appreciated the results obtained.
"The laboratory's immediate plans include the publication of an article based on the results of the experiment in serious scientific journals and the transition to the next stage of work – bioprinting of the human thyroid gland," Vladimir Mironov reports. – After this is done, we plan to focus our efforts on developing kidney bioprinting technology. Why kidneys? Because it is a well-known fact that today there is an acute shortage of kidneys for transplantation."
In the near future, the company will start printing human organs – first the thyroid gland, and then the kidneys.
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17.12.2015