By Lindsey Theis – Scripps News –
A team of Stanford University engineers, cardiologists, and biology experts are at work to bioprint a fully functioning human heart to implant into a pig.
Inside one of the labs that focuses on medical innovation at Stanford University, there’s a small room. It stays cold to protect a cylindrical bioreactor. Inside the cylinder, a light red liquid seems to sparkle when you look closely. Even closer, some of the sparkling segments seem to clump.
Those sparkly bits are stem cells. A little clump equals thousands of them.