Promising future

MALAYSIAN medical ­practitioners are generally upbeat about the prospects that 3D bioprinting has to offer them although the ­technology has yet to reach our shores.

“We are all very receptive to it,” says Prof Dr Fatimah Ibrahim, head of the centre for innovation in medical engineering at Universiti Malaya. “Everybody wants to do this for the advancement of ­healthcare and we are all open minded about it.”