California Research Team Prints Cartilage with an Inkjet Printer

California Research Team Prints Cartilage with an Inkjet Printer (ODT Magazine)
While companies such as ISTO Technologies and Integra LifeSciences work on growing viable, implantable human cartilage, Darryl D’Lima, M.D., Ph.D., has managed to print cartilage from nothing less than an old inkjet printer. The doctor, who heads the orthopedic research laboratory at Scripps Clinic in San Diego, Calif., was profiled in the New York Times on Aug. 18 for his groundbreaking work.
D’Lima has succeeded in creating bioartificial cow cartilage by modifying an old inkjet printer to put down layer upon laye...