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Remember the beginning of The Fifth Element where Lelu was reconstructed?
A pair of companies have developed a bio-printer that works just like a regular 3-D printer but instead of using polymer, it uses human tissue to print out skin, blood vessels, and livers. To start with, only simple tissues, such as skin, muscle and short stretches of blood vessels, will be mad... Found via...

3-D printer for manufacturing human tissue and organs

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