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2010-06-15

3D Bio-Printer Designed To Create New Organs

'Printer' designed to create made-to-measure human organs

Doctors could one day be able to “print” new organs for transplant using a new technology, it has been claimed.

It is hoped that the development could one day mean that patients in urgent need of new organs will no longer have to join transplant waiting lists.

A prototype machine developed by the California-based regenerative medicine company Organovo is already capable of growing new arteries.

They hope that the same techniques could be used to create new organs.
It is based on 3D laser printing technology used to create new machine parts for industry.

Collected from: 'Printer' designed to create made-to-measure human organs - Telegraph

A scientist manipulates the prototype 3D bioprinter which is already capable of making real, living arteries

The technology is based upon existing systems which create 3D models of components in industry.

The difference in bio-printing is that instead of layers of plastics, a 3D bio-printer uses layers upon layers of biological building blocks to create real, living tissue.

The concept is in its infancy but a working prototype of the first machine became available for testing at the end of last year.

Collected from: Doctors to be able to 'print' new organs for transplant patients | Mail Online

3D Bio-printer

Collected from: YouTube - 3D Bio-printer

Organovo, Inc.

Regenerative medicine is a rapidly advancing field that has the potential to transform human heath care. The potential now exists to develop tissue constructs for tissue repair and organ replacement. The US Dept. of Health and Human Services predicts that "within 20 years regenerative medicine will be the standard of care for replacing all tissue/organ systems in the body in addition to extensive industrial use for pharmaceutical testing." Organovo, Inc. is dedicated to applying its breakthrough NovoGen tissue printing technology to make those goals a reality. Founded by scientists from the National Bioprinting Center, Organovo is developing proprietary technologies to deliver on this promise.

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The web page of the Frontiers in Biological Research (FIBR) National Science Foundation grant consortium.
Background science from the Forgacs Laboratory at the University of Missouri.
Professor Forgacs quoted in Nature article.

Collected from: Organovo

BioPrinter
[...] The principle of bioprinting is illustrated below:layer-by-layer deposition of gel sheets and aggregates yields in a three dimensional cell aggregate pattern, which upon self assembly results in a living tissue structure of prescribed shape.

The sequence of events:

Cells are packed into capillary tubes, where they form a long and firm cylinder.
    The cutter produces little cylinders of equal diameter and height, which round up into cell spheres.
    Transferred into the cartridge, these bioink particles are deposited into gel sheets layer-by- layer.

Collected from: Welcome to the Forgacslab Website

Organ Printing

Collected from: YouTube - Organ Printing

Sources

'Printer' designed to create made-to-measure human organs - Telegraph
http://www.telegraph.co.uk/science/science-news/7802698/Printer-designed-to-create-made-to-measure-human-organs.html
Doctors to be able to 'print' new organs for transplant patients | Mail Online
http://www.dailymail.co.uk/sciencetech/article-1283709/Doctors-able-print-new-organs-transplant-patients.html?ITO=1490
YouTube - 3D Bio-printer
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1O3c3pUg0L8
Organovo
http://www.organovo.com/index.php
Welcome to the Forgacslab Website
http://forgacslab.missouri.edu/bioprinter.html
YouTube - Organ Printing
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=80DhBLEhdzk

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Organovo Develops First Commercial 3D Bio-Printer for Manufacturing Human Tissue and Organs - FierceBiotech
http://www.fiercebiotech.com/press-releases/organovo-develops-first-commercial-3d-bio-printer-manufacturing-human-tissue-and-orga
Welcome to the Forgacslab Website
http://forgacslab.missouri.edu/bioprinter.html
San Diego’s Organovo Develops Bio-Printer Technology to Engineer New Organs | Xconomy
http://www.xconomy.com/san-diego/2010/01/08/san-diegos-organovo-develops-bio-printer-technology-to-engineer-new-organs/
Organovo 3D bio-printer can make human tissue and organs | robaid.com - Rob Aid presents robots, gadgets. tech and bionics
http://www.robaid.com/tech/organovo-3d-bio-printer-can-make-human-tissue-and-organs.htm
Building body parts with 3D printing | In-depth | The Engineer
http://www.theengineer.co.uk/in-depth/analysis/building-body-parts-with-3d-printing/1002542.article
Organ Printing
http://organprint.missouri.edu/www/

2010-01-16

ACASA: Affordable Housing for the Developing World

Clipped from: ACASA

According to the UN, over one and a half billion people worldwide reside in substandard housing. Imagine if we could alleviate today's global housing crisis using new, automated construction technologies.

Clipped from: YouTube - WeAreAcasa

WeAreAcasa

Clipped from: ACASA Rapid Manufactured Housing

Based on the work of Behrokh Koshnevis at the University of Southern California, Rapid Automated Manufacturing (also known as Contour Crafting) is capable of building a 1000 ft² home in approximately one day. Advances in robotics and materials science suggest that future developments in this technology will include interior surfaces and furnishings.

Clipped from: Contour Crafting - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia

Contour Crafting

From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia

Contour Crafting is a construction process under development by Behrokh Khoshnevis of the University of Southern California's Information Sciences Institute (in the Viterbi School of Engineering) that uses a computer-controlled crane or gantry to build edifices rapidly and efficiently without manual labor. It was originally conceived as a method to construct molds for industrial parts. Khoshnevis decided to adapt the technology for rapid home construction as a way to rebuild after natural disasters, like the devastating earthquakes that have plagued his native Iran.^[1]

Clipped from: Contour Crafting

Contour Crafting (CC) is a layered fabrication technology developed by Dr. Behrokh Khoshnevis of the University of Southern California. Contour Crafting technology has great potential for automating the construction of whole structures as well as sub-components. Using this process, a single house or a colony of houses, each with possibly a different design, may be automatically constructed in a single run, embedded in each house all the conduits for electrical, plumbing and air-conditioning.

Clipped from: Sofya Yampolsky on the 3-D printing of houses | Singularity University

Sofya Yampolsky on the 3-D printing of houses

The ACASA team project examined how these exponentially growing technologies could be applied to the problem of sub-standard housing, concluding that advances in Rapid Additive Manufacturing (RAM) technologies could be used to construct customizable, affordable, and environmentally sustainable homes.

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2008-06-08

RepRap -- A self-replicating machine

A robot that can build itself: RepRap, a machine that can replicate itself by using rapid prototyping: manufacturing objects under the control of a computer, has been demonstrated recently. The machine is distributed under the GNU General Public Licence and a kit with all components needed to assemble it is available.

clipped from reprap.org

"Wealth without money..."

What is RepRap?

Look at your computer setup and imagine that you hooked up a 3D
printer. Instead of printing on bits of paper this 3D printer makes
real, robust, mechanical parts. To give you an idea of how robust,
think Lego bricks and you're in the right area. You could make lots of useful stuff, but interestingly you could also make most of the parts to make another 3D printer. That would be a machine that could copy itself.

clipped from www.telegraph.co.uk

Robot that can build itself to be unveiled

clipped from blog.reprap.org

Tuesday, June 03, 2008

RepRap achieves replication!

Adrian (left) and Vik (right) with a parent RepRap machine, made on a conventional rapid prototyper, and the first complete working child RepRap machine, made by the RepRap on the left.

clipped from www.rrrf.org

Complete Electronics Kit Available!

clipped from store.rrrf.org

This kit contains kits of all the Generation 2 electronics you'll need to build a functioning RepRap machine.

$150.00

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