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a closeup of three Mayo Clinic medical staff members in an operating room

Science Saturday: The regenerative operating room of the future

Envisioning the future of regenerative medicine elicits images of an operating room that also is a manufacturing facility. Patients undergoing surgery could have immediate access to products biomanufactured within the operating room or even within their own bodies. Products such as tissue engineered for targeted healing or 3D-printed scaffolds that repair diseased organs, bones or cartilage could be customized to address individual needs. This health care vision at the crossroads of biomanufacturing, engineering and regenerative…