COVID-19 pandemic may be fought by a possible weapon called bioprinting. The scientists claimed that 3D printed human organs such as lungs and skins could be used in treating coronavirus and other diseases like cancer.
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"But we never thought we'd be considering this for a pandemic," said Atala.
He also said that his team could print thousands of cells within an hour, from his lab in Winston-Salem, New York City. The process of creating an artificial human tissue using the printing process is a form of "bioprinting."
The report stated that scientists and other researchers are using the method to test drugs and medicines, hoping that it can be used to create actual human skin and full-size organs for transplanting.
"Even to us it sometimes seems like science fiction," said the director of a cross-disciplinary lab in the biomedical engineering department at Texas A&M University, Akhilesh Gaharwar. The lab mainly focuses on bioprinting and other approaches to regenerative medicine.
Bioprinting is currently used to print skin for those victims who suffered from burns, as well as testing cosmetics to avoid using live animals as test subjects.
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