[Extremely Extreme Extremist]

Yeah! More drinking!!

[Secret Agent Man]

“Unfortunately they kill whatever they’re placed in”

[KarlInOhio]

Scientists Print Functional Human “Mini-Livers”

Now we just need tiny fava beans and small bottles of chianti.

[Vince Ferrer]

The chief use of these will not be whole functional organs, but small proxy organs that can be used for testing drugs. In the future, before you go onto a prescription drug, they will create a mini-liver from your own cells, and test the drugs on your mini-liver first to see if your liver can tolerate it.

[Bob434]

Can they really De-Liver on this? hahahaha i crack me up

[Bobalu]

Good article, thankx 4 posting.

While reading it hit me, this is the sort of 3D printing article that 2ndDivVet always sought out and posted...I miss him.

[dfwgator]

Maj. Frank Burns: [Hawkeye is elaborately eating while in surgical garb] All right, what's all that funny business there?

Capt. Benjamin Franklin "Hawkeye" Pierce: There's nothing funny here to me, Frank. I happen to be very serious about this *delicious* piece of liver.

Maj. Frank Burns: Liver? Where'd you get liver? They're serving hamburger.

Capt. Benjamin Franklin "Hawkeye" Pierce: This is mine and you can't have any.

Maj. Frank Burns: Okay, okay. But where did you get it?

Capt. Benjamin Franklin "Hawkeye" Pierce: From that North Korean.

Maj. Frank Burns: What North Korean?

[beat]



Maj. Frank Burns: You mean the one that...

Capt. Benjamin Franklin "Hawkeye" Pierce: The one that croaked!

[Frank moves forward and moves the plate slightly to get a better look]

Capt. Benjamin Franklin "Hawkeye" Pierce: [outraged] You touched my plate! You're not sterile! You've ruined my liver! Ruined it! And we're all out of North Koreans!

[Nateman]

A wonderful time to be alive... and stay that way!

[tired&retired]

My son was just offered a job with a bio-tech company in the USA that uses 3-D printers to make body parts, including livers that are not rejected by the donee’s body.

They use cells from the recipient’s body to make the different “inks” and build the organ. They print cartilage, vascular tissue, and skin that is implanted.

He showed me films of the process. Absolutely amazing.

It’s beyond the research stage and being utilized in treatment.

[alexander_busek]

Is this was "Carter's Mini Liver Pills" are for?

Regards,

[Celtic Conservative]

Should go well with those mini bottles of liquor they make.

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