Jorge Rakela, a gastroenterologist at the Mayo Clinic in Phoenix and a member of the American Liver Foundation's medical advisory board, says 3D printing of organs can be described as “rapid prototyping” computer-assisted 3D printing technology, based on the use of layer-by-layer deposition of cells and/or cell aggregates in a 3D gel with sequential maturation of the printed construct into perfused and vascularized living tissue or organ”, (Griggs). Although the technology required for 3D printing is still more than a decade away from perfecting, the discoveries already show a very promising and bright future in terms of what 3D printing of organs will look like. The 3D printing process is divided into three subparts: “pre-processing or development of organ 'designs'; actual processing or printing of organs; and post-processing or conditioning of organs and accelerated maturation of organs,” (Mironov). This layer-by-layer organ building process greatly accelerates and optimizes tissue and organ assembly, while enabling new rapid prototyping 3D organ printing technology. These layers are made up of "appropriate cells from the patient's body on a dissolvable scaffold that mature within the body and connect with blood vessels and nerves" (Mironov), with this research conducted at the University of South Carolina These processes demonstrate how universal this phenomenon can actually be since each organ is made up of a