United Therapeutics partners with 3-D printer to make human organs

Silver Spring-based United Therapeutics Corp. has been clear about its ambitions to build an unlimited supply of certain transplantable organs. Now, founder Martine Rothblatt said the company's new multiyear collaboration with a 3-D bioprinting company, announced Wednesday, takes it a big step toward that goal. United Therapeutics (NASDAQ: UTHR), which now mostly develops and sells pulmonary hypertension drugs on the market, announced a development agreement to create develop "solid-organ scaffolds"…
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