Photo taken on Oct. 9, 2015 shows hepatic lobules printed on the Regenovo 3D bio-print Work Station in Hangzhou, capital of east China's Zhejiang Province. A Chinese team announced Friday that it has used a specialized 3D printer to produce tiny sections of the liver that could eventually be used to form a full artificial version of the organ. (Photo: Xinhua/Han Chuanhao)
A Chinese team has used a specialized 3D printer to produce tiny sections of the liver that could eventually be used a form a full artificial version of the organ, it announced on Friday.
The hepatic lobules, of which there are around a million in a human liver, were printed on the Regenovo 3D bio-print Work Station designed by the team at Hangzhou Electronic Science and Technology University.
This had a far more specific medical design than most 3D printers, which have industrial purposes, said team leader Xu Mingen.
