"[Our lab uses] a desktop inkjet printer, but instead of using ink, we’re using cells. — Anthony Atala"

"Surgeon Anthony Atala demonstrates an early-stage experiment that could someday solve the organ-donor problem: a 3D printer that uses living cells to output a transplantable kidney. Using similar technology, Dr. Atala's young patient Luke Massella received an engineered bladder 10 years ago; we meet him onstage."


http://www.bbc.com/future/story/20120621-printing-a-human-kidney