The holy grail of printed human organs remains a long way off, but commercial efforts to print simple structures and tissues are forging ahead. Gunjan Sinha reports.
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Sinha, G. Cell presses. Nat Biotechnol 32, 716–719 (2014). https://doi.org/10.1038/nbt.2983
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