Lowering the Costs of Organ Cell Printing

A specialized 3D printing extruder developed by a sophomore and collaborator at the University of Alabama in Huntsville (UAH) could lower the costs of printing cellular structures for use in drug testing. The so-called CarmAl extruder (Carbohydrate Anhydrous Rapid Manufacturing Aluminum extruder) its controlling software and manufacturing processes being developed by biological sciences student Tanner Carden and a collaborator studying mechanical and aerospace engineering. They say that they have produced a sugar grid mimicking blood vessels.