3D printing new organs – possible?

You may want to read this before you choose to donate any organs…

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Story-At-a-Glance

Matt Cook here, and sometimes it can feel like even though millions of dollars is thrown into medical research…

We still don’t have the kind of technological advancements we thought we’d have by now…

But hold on a second… because this may actually be something to get excited about…

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3D printing new organs — possible?

Heart goes bad? Print a new one and replace it.

That’s the promise of science fiction, but it also may be reality sooner than we think.

There’s new technology on the horizon that makes it look like printing USEABLE complex organs like hearts and livers.

That could help many people live longer and healthier lives, but it’s not the easy solution that it might appear to be at first glance.

Here is how the technology works, and some of the problems I see that might happen with it.

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3D printed organs are already a reality.

Right now, most organs can’t be printed with 3D technology because their blood vessel systems are just too complex for our current technology.

But bladders are one organ that can be printed from a patient’s OWN cells — which mostly eliminates the chances of rejection. 

Skin can also be printed at this point.

“Flat structures like skin” are easiest to print, he says. Then “tubular structures like blood vessels and urethras” are a little more complex, with “hollow non-tubular organs like bladders” ‘tougher’ still.

But ‘toughest’ are “solid organs like hearts, lungs, and kidneys,” with “so many more cells per centimeter”.

The promise of this is huge, if researchers can 3D print organs on a mass scale from patients’ own cells…

Then it would eliminate the problem with a shortage of organs available for transplant and the need for patients to be on anti-rejection treatments. 

And ultimately, bioprinting organs from people’s own cells will solve the “huge lack of supply” in organs for transplant, says Mr Morris, and do away with the need for anti-rejection immunosuppressant ‘treatments.’

This could dramatically increase the quality of life for so many people who are currently on organ transplant lists.

Organ printing technology is advancing.

Right now, though, there are still a lot of barriers to printing more complex organs, but technology is starting to solve those problems.

In APL Bioengineering, by AIP Publishing, researchers from Carnegie Mellon University provide perspective on the Freefrom Reversible Embedding of Suspended Hydrogels (FRESH) 3D bioprinting approach, which solves this problem by printing within a yield-stress support bath that holds the bioinks in place until they are cured.

That means that it’s possible for printed replacement organs to be available in my lifetime. 

It’s a pretty remarkable development and one I could have never predicted when I was a kid.

You still need to take care of your health.

While replacement organs made from your own cells is remarkable and could help the quality of life for many people, it’s not a total solution for good health.

For instance, if you have heart disease, it’s not only your heart that is affected.

It’s almost always all the blood vessels and capillaries in your body. 

So you may be able to eventually get a new heart, but the underlying health conditions that are causing heart problems are still there.

Which means that you would undergo an extensive and difficult surgery and still have the problems that caused the heart disease in the first place.

In my view, new medical technology can be fantastic but it can’t possibly replace the importance of looking after your health on a daily basis.

This is fueled in large part by what you eat (and that’s probably not what you think it should be) and how much sleep you get.

The good news is that your body has incredible healing properties. 

So even if you haven’t taken care of your health up until this point you can start now and give yourself a much better chance at living a long and healthy life.

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Matt Cook is editor-in-chief of Daily Medical Discoveries. Matt has been a full time health researcher for 26 years. ABC News interviewed Matt on sexual health issues not long ago. Matt is widely quoted on over 1,000,000 websites. He has over 300,000 daily newsletter readers. Daily Medical Discoveries finds hidden, buried or ignored medical studies through the lens of 100 years of proven science. Matt heads up the editorial team of scientists and health researchers. Each discovery is based upon primary studies from peer reviewed science sources following the Daily Medical Discoveries 7 Step Process to ensure accuracy.