3-D Printing Is Revolutionizing Medicine. Could It Lead to the Engineering of Kidneys and Livers?

Innovations in 3-D-printed materials stand to radically change the health-care industry, and  Dr. Jerome Groopman, longtime New Yorker contributor and Chair of Medicine at the Harvard Medical School, will discuss his investigation into this world, in his latest story in the November 24 issue of The New Yorker, “Print Thyself.” Doctors are using 3-D printing to reconstruct broken bones, remedy malformations, and create customized knee implants. Researchers have dreamed of engineering organs and tissues in a lab, and 3-D printing has become a glimpse into the future of medicine.