Think about what that means. Instead of waiting on a long list from an organ donor and then, if you receive one have to take medicine forever so your body doesn't reject what it (rightly) sees as a foreign object you just have your own tissue printed into any organ you need.
To: 2ndDivisionVet
Moving closer to the day were all organs can be printed. Would love to see pancreas, kidney, and liver being 3d printed.
2 posted on
07/28/2018 2:51:07 PM PDT by
taxcontrol
(Stupid should hurt)
To: 2ndDivisionVet
3d printing, blah blah.
“blood cells, reprogram them back into stem cells, reprogram them again to make the different type of cells”
I apparently missed when we figured out how to do this...
3 posted on
07/28/2018 2:56:45 PM PDT by
TheZMan
(I am a secessionist.)
To: 2ndDivisionVet
No more prisoners being killed for their organs.
4 posted on
07/28/2018 2:57:25 PM PDT by
Slyfox
(Not my circus, not my monkeys)
To: 2ndDivisionVet
I think the role of the 3d printer in the creation of bodily tissue is that the 3d printer picks up complete cells or possibly groups of cells and deposits them in a manner that builds up the desired tissue.
Individual cells aren’t being created by 3d printing.
Let me know if I’m wrong.
5 posted on
07/28/2018 3:01:51 PM PDT by
cymbeline
To: 2ndDivisionVet
Start by printing veins for bypass surgery.
To: 2ndDivisionVet
Fully functional replacements for bones, tissues or organs is an incredible ground breaking concept. Hopefully the technology will be clinically available in a decade or less.
9 posted on
07/28/2018 3:46:25 PM PDT by
erlayman
(yw)
To: 2ndDivisionVet
This is hype, and is a very long way from being clinically useful or important.
To: 2ndDivisionVet
As soon as we find a quick cure for the common cold, which causes more lost work-days than any other days, I will become a fan.
12 posted on
07/28/2018 3:50:15 PM PDT by
entropy12
(1 Mil Daca is the shining object to hide 30 mil low quality LEGAL immigrants in last 25 years)
To: 2ndDivisionVet
To: 2ndDivisionVet
I knew a woman who had no heart. She was very cold.
I could have used a 3D heart printer.
17 posted on
07/28/2018 4:18:03 PM PDT by
TheNext
To: 2ndDivisionVet
This sounds like it is a major step forward.
20 posted on
07/28/2018 4:24:24 PM PDT by
SharpRightTurn
(Chuck Schumer--giving pond scum everywhere a bad name.)
To: 2ndDivisionVet
I’m looking forward to the day when we can print out a complete Kate Upton.
To: 2ndDivisionVet
Sounds like the scene out of "The Fifth Element" where LeeLoo is regenerated after her ship crashes.
24 posted on
07/28/2018 4:41:26 PM PDT by
Flick Lives
(Suddenly someone'll say, like, plate, or shrimp, or plate o' shrimp out of the blue, no explanation.)
To: 2ndDivisionVet
These things are exaggerated.
29 posted on
07/28/2018 5:43:18 PM PDT by
ifinnegan
(Democrats kill babies and harvest their organs to sell)
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