Israel 'prints' world's first 3D living malignant brain tumor

Good news! Amazing stuff! If you can print it you can cure it! Cancer is history!

"A team of Israeli researchers from Tel Aviv University has printed the world’s first viable malignant brain tumor using a 3D printer, recreating the flowing blood vessels and surrounding brain tissue.

The glioblastoma tumor is based on samples from patients taken during surgery and is surrounded by a complex system of blood vessel-like tubes through which blood cells and drugs can flow, simulating a real tumor, explained Prof. Ronit Satchi-Fainaro, who led the research. ..."

Israel 'prints' world's first 3D living malignant brain tumor - The Jerusalem Post Each model is printed in a bioreactor we have designed in the lab using a hydrogel sampled and reproduced from the extracellular matrix taken from the patient, thereby simulating the tissue itself.