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Engineering tissue remains a delicate and dificult activity, bound up by
ethical issues, political controversy, and (rightly so) stringent regulatory pro-
cesses. Getting government regulators to approve new medical techniques can
take years and millions of dollars in research. It may take years to encourage
practicing surgeons, doctors and health insurance companies to accept bio-
printing as a standard medical practice.
Rapid advances in medical and 3D printing technologies will transform medi-
cine. Today's modern medicine would have looked miraculous if presented to
someone living 100 years ago. Perhaps in 100 years bioprinting will be a com-
monplace medical process, the technological equivalent of the Fountain of Youth.
