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Jane’s Answer
Hi Maurice,
Yes, there are several atricles about 3-D Bioprinting. It can change how neural tissue are engineered, moving it from a time consuming, hands-on process that can vary from lab-to-lab to a sterile, high-throughput process that can rapidly produce physiologically accurate brain constructs for applications in cell therapy and drug screening.
Source: NCBI article, Michaela Thomas and Stephanie M. Willerth.
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Brittany’s Answer
There are quite a bit of leaps in development and use of human tissue and complex organs over the past few years. In fact, I believe that an institute recently created the most equivalent human body lab tissue to test with pharmaceuticals, pathogens, etc. to measure actual effect to the human body - which generates more accurate results, allows for long term studies, and reduces need for animal testing. 3-D printing and lab grown tissue/organs are also being studied for use in organs impacted by drug interactions, allergies, burns, and anything that causes tissue damage requiring regeneration. There are also a number of articles out there regarding research and testing for dementia related diseases with artificial tissue. ScienceDaily and ScienceAlerts provide some quick reads on the topic. Hope that helps!