I think she's being too conservative in her timeline. They'll be printing livers months from now.
To: 2ndDivisionVet
Small livers at first but I’m of the opinion that some who’s liver is failing would benefit from even a small liver. We have a church member who’s liver is going. I would live to see the printed liver make it to the surgery room soon.
To: 2ndDivisionVet; AFPhys; AD from SpringBay; ADemocratNoMore; aimhigh; AnalogReigns; archy; ...
3-D Printer Ping!
Three-D printers aren’t quite up to that level of sophistication yet.
The last person we reassembled was Darksheare, and that was ... problematic.
3 posted on
01/30/2014 3:49:23 PM PST by
null and void
(<--- unwilling cattle-car passenger on the bullet train to serfdom)
To: 2ndDivisionVet
I just want a new left kidney, made from my own stem cells.
I wouldn't mind a spleen to go with it, but for sure the kidney.
/johnny
To: 2ndDivisionVet
They'll be printing livers months from now. Too late for Mickey Mantle.
6 posted on
01/30/2014 3:58:15 PM PST by
PJ-Comix
(ObamaCare unsubsidized PAID Enrollment Prediction: 66,666)
To: 2ndDivisionVet
I could use a new thumbnail.
7 posted on
01/30/2014 3:59:04 PM PST by
PJ-Comix
(ObamaCare unsubsidized PAID Enrollment Prediction: 66,666)
To: 2ndDivisionVet
More livers for us ex-hippies please!
And lungs for us smokers too.
8 posted on
01/30/2014 3:59:13 PM PST by
mrsmith
(Dumb sluts: Lifeblood of the Media, Backbone of the Democrat Party!)
To: 2ndDivisionVet
what if heart printing becomes the preserve of billionaires? All cutting edge innovations start out like that. It used to be that only the very rich had cell phones. There will be enough of a market to create economies of scale.
9 posted on
01/30/2014 3:59:15 PM PST by
glorgau
To: 2ndDivisionVet
The issue is the vascular system, and the linings. Those are rather more complicated.
10 posted on
01/30/2014 4:01:34 PM PST by
lepton
("It is useless to attempt to reason a man out of a thing he was never reasoned into"--Jonathan Swift)
To: 2ndDivisionVet
"They'll be printing livers months from now."
Really, you think? That would be good news since mine is full of Captain Morgan's.
11 posted on
01/30/2014 4:04:32 PM PST by
A Navy Vet
(An Oath is Forever!)
To: 2ndDivisionVet
Eventually it will be simple for even auto mechanics to change out a heart. Change the oil every 4,000 miles and install a new heart every 5,000 hours. And both while you wait.
12 posted on
01/30/2014 4:25:08 PM PST by
Enterprise
("Those who can make you believe absurdities can make you commit atrocities." Voltaire)
To: 2ndDivisionVet
How about chicken livers? Cheaper to grow or print?
Goose Liver Pate’ ?
14 posted on
01/30/2014 5:16:03 PM PST by
SolidRedState
(I used to think bizarro world was a fiction.)
To: 2ndDivisionVet
Around the world there’s a quiet but intense competition going on to print the first heart
............
In two years or so I think a very public competition will commence between several countries to be the first to produce a lftr thorium reactor.
15 posted on
01/30/2014 5:27:49 PM PST by
ckilmer
To: 2ndDivisionVet
Will obamacare cover this?
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