Printing A Kidney: A Glimpse At The Future
Health reporters were aflutter last week with reports that Dr. Anthony Atala, director of Wake Forest's Institute of Regenerative Medicine, printed a real, working kidney at a recent TED talk.
Headlines claiming things like, "Surgeon Creates A New Kidney By 'Printing' It" and "Need A Kidney? Just Hit Print..." compelled Wake Forest was compelled to issue a statement on its website calling the media reports "completely inaccurate."
So what's really going on? Is organ printing an immediate reality or still the stuff of science fiction?
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