3-D printing in the hands of forward-thinking scientists could offer a route to material resembling human tissues, material that mimics the basic structure of our cell membranes and that conceivably could be engineered to replace tissues in our bodies or to deliver drugs.
A new report in the journal Science, by researchers from the University of Oxford, describes using a custom 3-D printer to lay down a network of water droplets that are surrounded by a lipid coating. The water + lipid forms a double, or bi-, layer, and so similar in that regard to the hydrophilic/hydrophobic bilayer in human cell membranes.
To learn the details about this breakthrough in 3-D printing your body, click through to the full article at the Los Angeles Times.
