>> GERRY: THE LATEST 3-DPRINTERS CAN NOW CREATE LIVINGTISSUE. AND RESEARCHERS ON THEIUPUI CAMPUS ARE AMONG THE FIRST
SCIENTISTS IN THE NATION TO HAVEACCESS TO THE TECHNOLOGY.BARBARA LEWIS HAS MORE IN THEBUSINESS OF HEALTH.
BARB.>> GERRY, THANK YOU VERY MUCH.>> BARB: THINK OF THE NEWEST 3-DBIO PRINTER AS BEING SO PRECISE
IT CAN LAY DOWN SPECIFIC CELLTYPES IN A SPECIFIC PATTERN, SOTHE CELLS GROW TOGETHER INTOLIVING THINGS LIKE SKIN OR A
BLOOD VESSEL. JOINING ME TO TALKABOUT THE LATEST BIO-PRINTER ISDR. DAVID BURR, ASSOCIATE VICECHANCELLOR OF RESEARCH AT IUPUI.
GERRY, BACK TO YOU.
>> THANK YOU, BARBARA.>> TELL ME A LITTLE BIT MOREABOUT THIS ACTUAL PRINTER.WHAT MAKES THIS ONE UNIQUE?
>> THIS BIOPRINTER IS DIFFERENTTHAN OTHER BIOPRINTERS, BECAUSETHE CELLS THAT WE PUT IN THEBIOPRINTER MAKE THEIR OWN
MATRIX, THAT MAKE TISSUETHAT'S'S NATURAL, WITH OTHERS,WE HAVE TO PUT THE CELLS INTOSOMETHING THAT'S NOT ALWAYS
BIOLOGICAL, A HYDROGEL, AND IT'SPRINTED BY SOMETHING MORE LIKEAN INK JET PRINTER LIKE YOU HAVEIN YOUR OFFICE.
>> IUPUI HAS ACCESSED ONE OF THEFIRST INSTITUTIONS IN THECOUNTRY TO HAVE ACCESS TO THISPRINTER.
HOW DID THAT COME ABOUT?>> WE AT IUPUI HAD DEVELOPED AUSER GROUP OF PEOPLE THAT WEREINTERESTED IN 3-D PRINTING IN
GENERAL, BUT ALSO IN BY EUROPRINTING.THERE WERE GROUPS THAT SPANNED,SOME OF THE SCHOOL OF
ENGINEERING, AND EVEN IN THESCHOOL OF ART.WE HAD 20 OR 25 LABS INTERESTEDIN THIS, OF THOSE, ABOUT 15 TO
17 LABS WERE INTERESTED IN BIOPRINTING.SO ONE OF OUR MEMBERS, A CELLBIOLOGIST HAD A CONNECTION WITH
A JAPANESE COMPANY, AND THEYWERE INTERESTED IN PLACING THISIN AN ACADEMIC SETTING.WE'RE THE FIRST ACADEMIC CENTER
TO HAVE THIS.A NUMBER ARE USING IT TO PRINTDIFFERENT TISSUES IN DIFFERENTSHAPES.
FOR INSTANCE, WE HAVE A GROUPTHAT'S INTERESTED IN MAKINGVESSELS SO THEY COULD BE USEDFOR VASCULAR GRAFTS.
ANOTHER IN THE CELLULAR.AND LOOKING TO REPAIR FRACTURES.A GROUP ENGINEERING SKIN, ASWELL.
AND SO SKIN CAN BE USEDCERTAINLY FOR GRAFTS AFTERBURNS, BUT ALSO FOR VERYSPECIALIZED AREAS OF SKIN, FOR
INSTANCE, IN BREASTRECONSTRUCTIONS, AND WE ALSOHAVE A GROUP INTERESTED INMAKING A PANCREAS.
SO ALL KINDS OF DIFFERENTTISSUES.>> HOW SOON DOES IT GET TOHUMANS?
>> IT'S NOT READY FOR HUMANSYET.THERE'S SOME REGULATORY ISSUESTHAT HAVE TO BE SOLVED.
YOU HAVE TO GO THROUGH THEREGULATORY PATHWAYS TO MAKE SUREIT'S SAFE AND EFFECTIVE.BUT ALSO, THERE'S SOME OTHER
CHALLENGES, SO THE CELLS AND THEMATRIX HAVE TO TALK TO EACHOTHER, HAVE TO MAKE SURE THATTHE CELLS ARE IN THE RIGHT KIND
OF A MATRIX TO MAKE SURE THESHAPES ARE RIGHT.AND SO IT'S NOT READY FORHUMANS.
BUT SOON, IN FACT, ALREADY HASBEEN PLACED NOT HERE, BUT INOTHER PLACES, PLACED INPRECLINICAL MODELS, AND ANIMAL
MODELS, TO LOOK AT HOW ITPERFORMS.>> WHAT "SOON" MEANS?YEARS, MONTHS?
>> FOR SOME TISSUES, I THINK THEVASCULAR GRAFTS, WERE NOT FARAWAY, MAYBE A FEW YEARS.FOR SOLID ORGANS, TO PRINT A
WHOLE ORGAN, LIKE A PANCREAS OR