[gleeaikin]

Does anyone think this is scary stuff?

[Republican Wildcat]

It really seems unreal...crazy stuff that you could just have device “print” anything and everything. Could they print out clones of entire people?

[2ndDivisionVet]

Only if misused. Think about it: Getting an organ to replace one that has gone bad or been destroyed in an accident, crime or by illness that won’t require depressing your immune system because your body won’t reject it. Why? Because it will come from your cells. We’ll have become like the animal that can regrow its tail. At this rate, the children born today may live to be 200.

[JRandomFreeper]

I think it's pretty cool. I want a left kidney and spleen made from my own adult stem cells.

/johnny

[tbw2]

The ability to print tissue from cultures may allow us to transplant organs built from tissue samples from living relatives, instead of cadavers or subjecting kin to invasive surgery.
And the ability to transplant from organs built from stem cells could mean replacement organs from your own tissue, assuming you don’t have HIV or Hepatitis, so no rejection. And such transplants are an option even in a post-antibiotic world.

[no-to-illegals]

return ping gleeaikin. Are we talking zer0?