According OPTN - Network procurement and transplantation of organs, one is added to the national waiting list for a transplant every 10 minutes, which means 144 new people every day in the list and now has over 100,000.
They all hope that the day just their life will be saved, and was lucky to have only some, while on average, 22 will lose their lives each year while waiting for a compatible organ. Simply put, the difference between supply and demand of organs is too large.
The new technology could change it.
Advances in the field of 3D bioprintanjeto enables creation of bodies that will be needed for transplant. From the patient's body can take stem cells that will be sent to a laboratory to be cultured to grow up in the type of body that is needed. Then bioprinterot would create the body using these cells, after which he would be placed in an incubator to mature. Once ready, the patient would receive a functional body that his body will not reject it.
Last year, researchers have developed the first functional 3D Printed liver tissue, and even had a small heart and isprintano chip. Almost every day the human body was the subject of a successful study that included its 3D bioprintanje.
Unfortunately, barriers to adoption of technology for 3D bioprintanje not have little.
The growth of solid organs such as the kidneys, heart and lungs is not at all simple, requires huge resources and time to perform all tests and studies of long-term risks of kompaktibilnosta and request approvals from various regulatory and legislative bodies.
One of the major difficulties is the lack of free access to digital models of the bodies, which are necessary for the final product is scientifically accurate medical and usable.
All this should be corrected to become the technology more accessible in the future, which would lead to it each of which needs a body, you can immediately get it.
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