Body Parts That Can Be Made With A 3-D Printer

Liver Cells

When it comes to trying out new and possibly effective types of medication, there are always risks involved. While a drug could provide a patient with the relief that they desire, it could also cause potentially fatal side effects. Unfortunately, there is no way to test this reaction out prior to having the patient consume the product.

With new advances in 3-D printing, this has changed. Doctors can now replicate liver cells and use them to test different medications without putting their patients at risk. This eliminates the option of using humans as test subjects, while allowing professionals to track how a person’s body may react to a certain type of drug.

Arms

When accidents cause the loss of limbs, a person’s life is changed forever as they are forced to adjust how they go about their day-to-day activities. Adapting to life without a limb is definitely possible, but the challenges involved can put a lot of strain on a person’s physical and mental health.

Science has made some tremendous leaps as far as creating entire limbs with the use of 3-D printing. Those who have lost limbs are then given the capability to go through their life with a higher degree of independence. Eventually, professionals hope to give people full control of their new limbs through merely the use of brain power, just as if they never lost a limb at all.