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Podcast: Peggy Smedley Show
Episode: Tech and Tissues
Description: Peggy Smedley and Adam Feinberg, cofounder and CTO, Fluidform and professor, Carnegie Mellon University, talk about the research that is done at his lab. He says what they are trying to do is understand how to engineer or build human tissue to treat disease. They also discuss: How engineers can develop technologies that can develop tissue. A 3D bioprinted heart tube like a conduit with valves that would take over the function of pumping blood to the lungs, restoring normal heart functions. How 3D printing is applied to this research—and how it is applicable. fl...