3D bioprinting is making waves throughout the world as its potential begins to be realized. In the stages of approval for new medical procedures, there's a lot of red tape and many processes to get through prior to actual use of new products and techniques in human patients. Following half a decade of R&D, scientists from China's Xi'an Particle Cloud Advanced Materials Technology have announced that their new patented 3D printing process to create biodegradable bone structures has been successfully tested on animal subjects. Their use of advanced Filament Free Printing (FFP) techniques creates scaffolds that encourage growth of new bone cells -- and this use has now been successfully proven in a rabbit. This success paves the way to eventual use of such technology in humans with bone defects and bone nonunions. Find out more about these bone scaffolds and the successful trials in the full article: http://3dprint.com/53551/3d-print-bones-animal/


Below is a look at the 3D printed scaffold and its use: