[DannyTN]

I having my _____ redrawn this weekend.

[DannyTN]

"I'm not bad, I'm just drawn that way!"

[MeshugeMikey]

a quantum leap forward in “medicine” while we undergo several quantum leaps backwards in society...

Were our progress as a nation and a world as welcome!

Thanks

[skeeter]

Just in time - I’m down to my last few microns of cartilage in both shoulders.

[ifinnegan]

Link says they are using human embryonic stem cells as the “ink”.

Aside from the moral questions, embryonic stem cells outside of their natural environment, a human in very early development, grow wild. They don’t necessarily grow in to the target tissue, in this case bone, because of their pluripotency. And they tend to grow wild due to their natural proliferating capabilities.

[null and void]

Not quite a 3-D Printer ping...

Some day her prints will come

One body part at a time...

[Rusty0604]

Organovo is developing 3D human organs that will hopefully be used in transplants.
http://www.organovo.com/

[Dead Corpse]

Interesting. I’m over due for shoulder surgery.

Gives a person things to think about.

[Slyfox]

[Seraphicaviary]

Cue the reconstitution scene from The 5th Element.

Can they make clones with that? The world could use a few more Milla Jovovichs.

[listenhillary]

Now if they can keep the surgical site infection free. Very few people that I know have had surgeries in the last eight years without further complications from infection.

[bgill]

A million years from now archaeologists will wonder why “Elroy was here” was carved into bones.

[null and void]

And this, ladies and gentlemen, is why penmanship is important for a doctor...