People can do some pretty wild things with 3D printers, like printing faces using DNA samples found on the streets and making Star Wars-inspired prosthetic limbs for kids from open-source designs and some plastic.
Now, 3D printing will soon be able to generate real, living human tissue, as L’Oreal has partnered with bioengineering startup Organovo to print human skin.
The French cosmetics firm has been growing skin in a lab since the 1980’s, breaking down bits of donor skin from plastic surgeries into individual cells, re-culturing them, and growing them into tiny, half-centimeter testing sheets. This has been successful, with L’Oreal ceasing animal testing in 2013 as a result.
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