Practicing Summary and Paraphrase

In this post, I will practice summarizing and paraphrasing my text using a quote from the article I am analyzing.

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Original Source

"For her part, Lewis is passionate about the changes that 3-D printing could bring to the pharmaceutical industry. Billions of dollars each year are spent on drug development that fails. If bioprinted tissues were readily available, experimental drugs could be tested on them to see how the drugs are metabolized and what side effects result." 

My Paraphrase of Original Source

In "Print Thyself," Groopman communicates Jennifer Lewis's opinion regarding the usefulness of 3-D printing in medicine. He writes that Lewis believes that this technology could be especially transformative in the pharmaceutical industry, in which a significant amount of money is spent on developing drugs. However, by using 3-D printing to print tissues, we could test these drugs on this printed tissue and evaluate their effectiveness. 

My Summary of the Original Source 

In this section of his article, Groopman demonstrates that 3-D printing could help save a significant amount of money in the pharmaceutical industry by providing printed tissues to test drugs on.