Organovo develops a new human tissue by 3D printing for clinical trials

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From Organically, a company specialized in 3D bio-printing, have just announced that, after many months of experimentation and testing by their engineers, they finally have ready what today is their second artificial fabric baptized with the name of Ex Vive Human Kidney.

As they have explained, apparently this new product is nothing more than a fabric replica hepatic human kidney where the proximal burial mounds are located. This new fabric will allow any user to carry out clinical studies of all kinds to know first-hand the effects of certain drugs on parts of the body. liver sensitive kidney.

ExVive Human Kidney, the second artificial human tissue created by Organovo, is now available for sale.

The success achieved by Organovo with this new artificial human tissue seems to be quite high, not in vain the company has already confirmed several trade orders At the same time that today they collaborate with various toxicology centers as well as two of the 25 largest pharmaceutical companies in the world. All these collaborators will have priority access to this new product.

Undoubtedly great news for a company that sees in this product and market a flourishing sector, not in vain does it hope to be able to achieve more than $ 100 million in annual profits Thanks to this type of artificial human skin, an amount to take into account for a company that wants to enter a market that annually moves more than 2.000 million dollars.

Regarding the tissue itself, Organovo has indicated that it offers functional proximal tubules for more than four weeks, a tissue complexity very similar to the original liver human kidney, allowing to detect the injuries, compensation and recovery of this, as well as other functionalities that make it highly useful in the tests.


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  1.   pakito liver kidney said

    Having proximal tubules and nephrons and kidney means kidney not liver, it is non-liver kidney tissue 😉

    1.    John Louis Groves said

      Thank you very much for the clarification !!