Miniature-sized heart chambers called ventricles have been 3D printed with live human heart muscle cells and shown to beat on their own for at least three months.

This works well for creating complex tissues like those found in the human heart where the 3D structure is critical to its function. Of course, there are major challenges to this approach, too.

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However, the 3D printed ventricles were about six times smaller than real human ones. They were made from a mixture of live human heart muscle cells and a gel-like material.

Stanford scientists can write vascular networks directly into the 3D-printed tissue. Stanford University/Andrew Brodhead "It is ambitious, but we believe that a lot of the basic building blocks to ...

Skylar-Scott’s research group at Stanford University aims to 3D print a human heart worthy of transplantation. With its complex shape, ventricles, atria, blood vessels, and pumping motions, this ...

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