00:00This might not look like much, but it could be the future of surgery and cancer treatment.
00:09This is what its designers call F3DB, a 3D bioprinter that uses bioink to repair the
00:14body's organs, but it can do so from inside the body.
00:18Conventional bioprinting must first be done outside the body, then relying on invasive
00:21surgery to get whatever has been printed to where it needs to go.
00:24That method involves long recovery times, blood loss, chance of infection, you name
00:28it.
00:29This method, however, involves a flexible 3D printer, meaning it can be inserted endoscopically
00:34through a small hole to deliver the bioink wherever it needs to go.
00:37What's more, the device is an all-in-one tool, with a scalpel and a water jet nozzle
00:41on the end, allowing doctors to go in and remove cancerous cells, then apply repairing
00:45treatments immediately following the procedure.
00:47Right now, the flexible 3D printer is only 11-13mm in diameter, but they expect to get
00:53that even smaller as testing continues.
00:55According to its developers, there's nothing else like this currently available for doctors,
00:59and they expect the device to be released within the next 5-7 years, possibly changing
01:03the way we do surgery forever.
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