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How a Carnegie Mellon Professor Made a MakerBot a Cheap Bioprinter

Started by Clark, November 07, 2015, 11:58:28 AM

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November 07, 2015, 11:58:28 AM Last Edit: November 07, 2015, 12:00:53 PM by Clark
http://fortune.com/2015/11/04/carnegie-mellon-bioprinter/


How a Carnegie Mellon Professor Made a MakerBot a Cheap Bioprinter
by Andrew Zaleski

       
  • The hack Adam Feinberg performed spells good news for the growing number of startups beginning to tackle the bioprinting field.
  • The question Carnegie Mellon University professor Adam Feinberg was trying to answer was how he could produce bioprints of cellular structures that wouldn't collapse under their own weight while being printed. Being able to do that on the cheap would be nice, too, since industrial-size bioprinters cost more than $100,000.
  • One hacked MakerBot Replicator printer later, and he had his answer
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