printers for human organs in hospitals

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In a generation, the hospital will be a copy shop, home to biological Xerox machines. To conquer diabetes and kidney and liver failure, doctors in 2040 will use regenerative medicine, robotics and virtual reality to tailor-make new organs, which they’ll build from patients’ cells.

“Presently we treat these issues, which are essentially the failure of certain organs and affect hundreds of millions of people, with transplantation. But this only helps a small percentage of people, because there’s an organ shortage. We also treat these ailments with medicines such as insulin, which are good for big pharma but expensive,” Rosen says.