3D printers are a great advancement to the world of technology. there was a time when we could expect to create something we just could imagine. There we so many thing that could not have been possible without 3D printers and it came making so many tasks easier.
3D printing is a process of making three dimensional solid objects from a digital file. In an additive process, an object is created by laying down successive layers of material until the entire object is created.
In the past we couldn’t imagine of making something digital into a real object that easily.some of the things were even hard to create and impossible too. But with the long awaited invention of 3D printers the impossible can be turned to possible.
3D printers are high technology and innovative one as well. This technology is helpful for the manufacture of different products in the future.
But who could have thought it will be making human skins in the future. However, the hype of printing organs may delay comparison to the applications for beauty products. We might see a mixture of biotechnology with 3D printing technology to print human skin shortly.
The process is called the bioprinting and would be worth a 1 million dollar by 2025. Cosmetics companies are very eager to have such creating as they would be able to do tests with their products which will lead to their better sales as they would be experimentation on the real live tissue version. L’Oreal is one of the cosmetics giants which is working for it.
It has teamed up with the U.S. biotech Organovo to develop 3-D printed skin tissues. So that they will have skin tissue for product testing. L’Oreal had been making skins for decades. Using their laboratories, they have been growing skin and experiment with their products adding pigments and aging the tissue with the ban on the testing of cosmetics on animals.
But it has always been a slow and tedious procedure to grow skin in the laboratories. Therefore they have been working on developing skin tissues with the help of bioprinting which would also speed things up and let them carry on with experiments easily. Instead of waiting for the skin to grow in laboratories they could build the surface by printing them. The stronger prototype will also be created now.
Skin being a thin tissue in the body is easy to print that’s why A syringe in the printer moves along the line of fabric, squeezing out a cell solution very slowly. Layers are then added to create the desired thickness. Therefore 3D printers will be a more natural solution for the production of the skin.
“In the syringe format, it would be possible to create different skin types,” said Arnold Bos, a technology consultant at Lux Research, “You can recreate sensitive skin or man’s skin.”This would result in great fortune to the company concerning the tests they will be able to do and provide excellent products to the user. Nearly $1 billion was spent on research and innovation in 2013. However, the future for bioprinting looks promising.