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The end of transplant waiting lists?

Thursday, July 3, 2014 16:54

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The end of transplant waiting lists? Researchers reveal ‘giant leap’ in printing replacement organs – and say they could soon be created on demand in hospitals

Researchers can print vascular system inside organs to pass blood through them
Could allow damaged organs to simply be 3d printed in hospital and implanted

Researchers claim to have made a ‘giant leap’ towards creating 3D organs that could be simply printed out in hospitals when needed for a transplant.

An international team have created the first organs that include a full vascular network for transporting blood through organs.

They say it could even allows organs damaged by cancer to simply replaced.

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The vascular system inside an organ, picture here, can now be printed inside an artificial organ allowing blood to flow through it

HOW THEY DID IT

Using a high-tech ‘bio-printer’, the researchers fabricated a multitude of interconnected tiny fibres to serve as the mold for the artificial blood vessels.

They then covered the 3D printed structure with a cell-rich protein-based material, which was solidified by applying light to it.

Lastly they removed the bio-printed fibres to leave behind a network of tiny channels coated with human endothelial cells, which self organised to form stable blood capillaries in less than a week.

The study reveals that the bioprinted vascular networks promoted significantly better cell survival, differentiation and proliferation compared to cells that received no nutrient supply.

Scientists from the Universities of Sydney, Harvard, Stanford and MIT have now bio-printed artificial vascular networks mimicking the body’s circulatory system that are necessary for growing large complex tissues.

‘Thousands of people die each year due to a lack of organs for transplantation,” says study lead author and University of Sydney researcher, Dr Luiz Bertassoni.

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‘Many more are subjected to the surgical removal of tissues and organs due to cancer, or they’re involved in accidents with large fractures and injuries.

‘Imagine being able to walk into a hospital and have a full organ printed – or bio-printed, as we call it – with all the cells, proteins and blood vessels in the right place, simply by pushing the ‘print’ button in your computer screen.

‘We are still far away from that, but our research is addressing exactly that.

‘Our finding is an important new step towards achieving these goals.

‘At the moment, we are pretty much printing ‘prototypes’ that, as we improve, will eventually be used to change the way we treat patients worldwide.’

Cells need ready access to nutrients, oxygen and an effective ‘waste disposal’ system to sustain life. This is why ‘vascularisation’ – a functional transportation system – is central to the engineering of biological tissues and organs.

The team’s 3D printer in action, gradually building up blood vessels layer by layer

A network of blood vessels created by the team

‘One of the greatest challenges to the engineering of large tissues and organs is growing a network of blood vessels and capillaries,’ says Dr Bertassoni.

‘Cells die without an adequate blood supply because blood supplies oxygen that’s necessary for cells to grow and perform a range of functions in the body.

‘To illustrate the scale and complexity of the bio-engineering challenge we face, consider that every cell in the body is just a hair’s width from a supply of oxygenated blood.

‘Replicating the complexity of these networks has been a stumbling block preventing tissue engineering from becoming a real world clinical application.’

Source: http://nesaranews.blogspot.com/2014/07/the-end-of-transplant-waiting-lists.html

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