You can already buy 3D-printed houses, cars, rocket engines, sneakers, and, of course, sex robots. But can I interest you in a 3D-printed kidney? It’s an offer that Vital3D plans to make a reality.

The 3D-printed model allowed doctors to study the patient's kidney in 3D to determine how to best remove the tumor as it was located in a precarious location adjacent to vital arteries and veins.

A 3D-printed model of a patient's kidney was used to assist in the complicated removal of a tumor, report doctors at Intermountain Medical Center in Utah. Top News U.S. News ...

Doctors and scientists at Intermountain Medical Center in Salt Lake City printed and used a 3D kidney to help save a patient's organ during a complicated tumor-removal procedural.

3D-Printed Kidney Tissue Is Here to Revolutionize Drug Testing. The company that brought us 3D-printed liver tissue makes another breakthrough. By John Wenz Published: Apr 03, 2015 10:42 AM EDT.

For the first time ever, scientists are successfully 3D printing actual, living human kidneys. Like the human livers printed in the past, the kidney are currently miniature in size, but with about ...

Biomedical company Organovo showed off its technique for 3D printing human kidney tissue at the 2015 Experimental Biology conference in Boston.

Want to 3D print a kidney? Start by thinking small. ScienceDaily. Retrieved June 2, 2025 from www.sciencedaily.com / releases / 2022 / 04 / 220413151120.htm. Stevens Institute of Technology.

They’ve created an array of models showing effects of the “Top 10 Killers” to demonstrate how 3D printing would be useful for approaching cardiovascular disease, cancer, COPD, trauma, stroke ...

Doctors used a 3D-printed model to help transplant a father’s kidney into his 3-year-old son.Physicians took three-dimensional scans of Dexter Clark's abdomen to make the transplant from his ...

Thanks to the 3D-printed model of the organ, doctors were able to maneuver around those sensitive areas and successfully remove the tumor and ultimately save the patient's kidney.