Boyan Panchevsky

It's called 3D bioprinting.

I think everyone by now has heard of 3D printing.

Basically, 3D printers are printing things.

They can print a glass.

They can print a glove.

They can even print a whole house.

And there are also 3D printers that print biological material, tissues, and the Russians are hoping even organs quite soon.

So the idea is you print an organ in the lab and then you kind of implant it into a human being, like say lungs or liver or even the heart perhaps.

That's the aspiration.

The second thing is the mini pigs.

They are genetically sort of close to humans in some ways.

They're genetically modified, I think, as well.

And they're growing organs in these mini pigs and then they're implementing them, implanting them into human beings.

It has to be said, this is already being done.

I don't think people who get organs like that live long or, you know, for various reasons, the body rejects the organs or whatever.

But it is a technique that is actually quite promising.

It's not a fantasy.

It's something that other countries are doing as well.

I mean, China notably is doing this as well.

What is this?