Amazing medical advances – Closer to Star Trek everyday!

Oh, Doctor Crusher would love this…

Ted.com: About this talk

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.ted.com/talks/anthony_atala_printing_a_human_kidney.html