This Robot Will Help You Heal From The Inside!

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This might not look like much, but it could be the future of surgery and cancer treatment. This is what its designers call F3DB, a 3D bioprinter that uses bio-ink to repair the body’s organs, but it can do so from inside the body. Conventional bioprinting must first be done outside the body, then relying on invasive surgery to get whatever has been printed to where it needs to go. This method involves long recovery times, blood loss, chance for infection, you name it.

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00:00this might not look like much but it could be the future of surgery and cancer treatment this is

00:09what its designers call f3db a 3d bioprinter that uses bio ink to repair the body's organs but it

00:15can do so from inside the body conventional bioprinting must first be done outside the body

00:20then relying on invasive surgery to get whatever has been printed to where it needs to go that

00:24method involves long recovery times blood loss chance of infection you name it this new method

00:29however involves a flexible 3d printer meaning it can be inserted endoscopically through a small hole

00:34to deliver the bio ink wherever it needs to go what's more the device is an all-in-one tool with

00:39a scalpel and a water jet nozzle on the end allowing doctors to go in and remove cancerous cells then

00:44apply repairing treatments immediately following the procedure right now the flexible 3d printer

00:49is only 11 to 13 millimeters in diameter but they expect to get that even smaller as testing

00:54continues according to its developers there's nothing else like this currently available for

00:58doctors and they expect the device to be released within the next five to seven years possibly

01:03changing the way we do surgery forever

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