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Rahmer’s team also fitted a biopsy needle’s tip with the sensor and injected it into a large, tissuelike gelatin blob to see whether the sensor could help guide medical instruments.

Inkjet printing is preferred for depositing cells themselves, and as a demonstration of this in the 1980s an unmodified HP desktop printer was used to print out collagen as well as tissuelike structures.

Clues to Human Thought Found in Worm’s Brain In humans, the cerebral cortex, the tissuelike outermost layer of the brain, is thought to play a critical role in creative and analytical thinking.