Support Gel Extends Low-Cost Bioprinting
An affordable modified system can create complex living structures.
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In this lesson: Distinguish demonstrated laboratory capability from unsupported clinical claims.
Grammar in this story: Exceeding gives a lower boundary
structures exceeding 100 layers
Exceeding means more than 100, rather than exactly 100. Approximately separately qualifies the cost estimate.
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State the demonstrated capability and one clinical claim it does not establish.
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The approximately $450 modified system uses cell-containing bio-ink and a support gel to create structures exceeding 100 layers. This is a laboratory method for engineered living materials; it does not establish that replacement organs have been supplied to patients.
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