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One held a biocompatible plastic that, when printed, would form the interlocking structure of a scaffold—the skeleton, essentially—of a printed human organ or body part. The others could be ...

The operation, carried out in China, used a liver from a pig that had been genetically modified to reduce the chance of the organ being ... very well in the human body. So it's a great achievement." ...