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We have sufficiently advanced medicine to the point that artificial body parts are no longer science fiction. In fact, we may even start 3D printing organs, or have them grown in a lab. However, their artificial nature often means they won’t grow with a patient. For example, children need to undergo repeated surgeries until adulthood to replace implants they have outgrown. Via THE OFFICIAL ANDREASCY, guillaume riottot 
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Artificial tissue has always lacked a key ingredient: blood vessels. A new 3-D printing technique seems poised to change that. Via guillaume riottot
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This could reduce treating children's congenital heart defects to a single surgery.