Your Old Inkjet Printer Could Aid Burn Victims

yahooNews ^ | Dec. 2, 2004

[TheErnFormerlyKnownAsBig]

I'm sure by next week they will be sending out spam that claims they can create "male enhancements" from these inkjet printers.

[al baby]

well my wife says i make love like a tractor



feed printer

[Carry_Okie]

Complete with downladable tatoos?

I'm totally ga-ga at this creation. Amazing.

[BwanaNdege]

Amazing what those "dumb, uneducated Red Staters" can come up with! Next thing you know, they may be using that old washing machine ("that 'un that narly kilt 'Ole Blue' and a coupla' other hounds when the front porch fell in last summer") as a centrifuge to enrich U-235.

That way they get fuel for their nukular still out back ("Man, talk about a KICK from that 'Branch water' -for medicinal purposes only, of course") and they get a supply of depleted uranium for casting long range bullets for their Barrett .50 cal 'varmit gun'.

[randog]

Inkjets that are ten years old, they say, are perfectly suited to create sheets of human skin and other tissue that one day may help burn victims and even manufacture organs.

No wonder internet porn is so popular.

[William Terrell]

Printed organs could be created for use in transplants and for drug testing;

Drug testing?

[whd23]

Drug testing?

My guess is that if they could manufacture a liver, kidney, etc. they could test for drug toxicity and effectiveness w/o having to make use of humans for drug trials.

Drug trials are done in three phases: Phase I studies are usually just a test to see what a "safe" dosage of that particular drug is. It's a limited pool of patients, and they're not given any hope that the drug may cure them.

[nuconvert]

LoL. you're probably right

[nuconvert]

LOL!

[fat city]

"Hewlett-Packard and Canon inkjet printers to shoot out proteins instead of ink"

Sheesh, like cartridges aren't way expensive already.

[Cacique]

l8r

[Mr Ramsbotham]

This sounds like true ingenuity at work.

[Wiz]

Could Dot Matrix printer be used? :)

[decimon]

well my wife says i make love like a tractor

Could be the PTO.

[Semper911]

Interesting article, but very frustrating. The article opens with:

Looking for a place to toss your old inkjet printers?

...and we all are thinking...YES! Where do we send them? Then we read the entire article and find there is no address or contact info.

Turns out there was a key word that dashes all hope of finding a good place for the dozens of old ink jet printers my school district sends to the landfill each year.

A team of scientists working to create human tissue may have a good use for them.

Key word "may". As in, maybe someday, but not today.

[nuconvert]

Got your attention though............

[al baby]

power take off?

[decimon]

Yes. An attempt at humor.

[PleaseNoMore]

This new skin is wonderful. I haven't looked it up to see if this is the same thing but my daughter received Transcyte grafts when she suffered 2nd and 3rd degree burns from her chin down. She healed faster than she would have with traditional grafts and has very minimal scarring.