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Bioengineers aim to build a heart, one layer at a time

Using advanced 3D printing techniques, Mark Skylar-Scott and his team want to transform a paste made of living cells into hearts and other organs. For an engineer, few human organs are more enticing than the human heart. Its chambers pump in perfect unison; its materials are pliable, yet contract on demand; its shape and motion are perfectly...