We’ve seen 3D printed blood vessels before - even an entire functioning network of them that was surviving in mice - but researchers in the Netherlands who are working with blood vessels and 3D printing technology are focused on something a little different. The team, consisting of scientists from the University of Twente and Utrecht University, is using 3D printing techniques to replicate the interaction between the flow of blood and blood vessel walls, in order to reproduce and study blood clots. The researchers developed a more anatomically correct, microfluidic blood vessel model, using layered stacks of computed tomography angiography (CTA) data and stereolithography, that mimics a blood clot forming due to stenosis defects, in order to duplicate both diseased and healthy blood vessels in vitro for the purpose of controlled studies. Read more at 3DPrint.com: http://3dprint.com/182996/3d-printed...-vessel-model/