1. 3D Printing, Drug Research and Design
Because what better to test a drug's toxic effects than a human liver. One day 3D printing may allow laboratories the ability to test these effects themselves at a low cost and prevent many of the drug failures that happen in the clinical trials and death of animal models. ... These livers will be used to test the toxicity of new drugs. ... Another interesting spark of controversy in bio-printing is which technique will be used to print the cells and also what materials will be used to recreate natural cells. ... In this area scientist are not able to test the full toxicity of new drugs. ...
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