It’s the middle of the night, you’re starving and all of the restaurants are closed. You are sitting in your dorm wishing you could print pizza so you didn’t have to leave.

Years ago, this seemed like something you could only witness in science fiction. But now technology has been getting closer to this pizza printing future. Not only are there 3D printers for sale right now that can print objects, but medical professionals have made 3D printers that can make miniature organs. According to BBC News, this new project has been named “The Body Chip” project and the United States has funded this project with 25 million dollars.

This idea of printing organs has been in the process for a while however BBC News said that, “The tests being carried out at the Wake Forest Institute for Regenerative Medicine in North Carolina are the first to combine several organs on the same device.”

This is revolutionary because in the past, these printers would only have the capability to print one type of organ. Since organs are sensitive and need perfection when it comes to their DNA content, it was too big of a task to make it so one printer could print more than one type of organ. This new advancement has increased the ability for future advancements.

One of the main advantages of being able to create organs on command is that it eliminates the ethical issue of animal drug testing. For years, people have debated about the ethics of raising animals to test drugs on them. Thanks to this new technology, if there is a new type of medication that needs to be tested, instead of having a living creature undergo these experiments, scientists can now just inject the medication into the affected organ.

While this technology is nowhere near being where it needs to be in order for it to be accessible, it is opening the path to even more medical advances and to a better world. Once this technology becomes readily available to doctors and chemists, there is no limit to what other advances could be coming our way.