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Print me a heart and a set of arteries
New Scientist ^
| 4/13/2006
| Peter Aldhous
Posted on 04/14/2006 8:51:17 AM PDT by Neville72
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To: Lekker 1
Am I the only one this creeps out?Yes, you are...
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posted on
04/14/2006 9:29:58 AM PDT
by
null and void
(<----nasty, brutish, and short...)
To: Lekker 1
"Am I the only one this creeps out?"
I guess we all view things like this through our own filter.
I've got a close friend who was just diagnosed with idiopathic pulmonary fibrosis. It's untreatable and fatal. At the end you suffocate. Normal life expectancy after diagnosis is 5-6 years though he may have a bit longer because they caught his very early. Ten years at the most is probably all he's got. He'll need replacement lungs.
I view advances like this, not as "creepy" though I see your point, but as potentially terrific news for my friend and many millions of others.
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posted on
04/14/2006 9:33:17 AM PDT
by
Neville72
(uist)
To: Neville72
Images of the T-1000 from "Terminator 2" spring to mind, the liquid pool bonding with other nearby droplets to form ... something.
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posted on
04/14/2006 9:35:10 AM PDT
by
shezza
(God bless our military heroes)
To: TheBattman
Who would have ever thought of "printing" a slurry of cells into a usable tissue?It really is amazing. The interesting thing is that some ink jet technology uses micelles for encapsulating ink. Structurally, they are very analagous to biological cells. So if the micelles can be deposited, why not living cells? I guess it was just a matter of time before biology and printer technology were synthesized together like this. It's a wonderful example of the evolution of a new process from unifying two distinct technological realms!
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posted on
04/14/2006 9:38:20 AM PDT
by
doc30
(Democrats are to morals what and Etch-A-Sketch is to Art.)
To: LibWhacker
True, but what about the brain itself? Doesn't it deteriorate with age, too, just like any other organ?Imagine extending that scenario. You could stay healthy and young looking for virtually forever, but your brain goes senile. Imagine a geriatric ward where everyone is in great physical shape, everyone looks like gorgeous 20 somethings but all have Alzheimers.
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posted on
04/14/2006 9:41:04 AM PDT
by
doc30
(Democrats are to morals what and Etch-A-Sketch is to Art.)
To: Neville72
Don't use the brain labeled ABNORMAL...........
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posted on
04/14/2006 9:51:38 AM PDT
by
showme_the_Glory
(No more rhyming, and I mean it! ..Anybody want a peanut.....)
To: Lekker 1
In a few years, I imagine they'll be able to print out the whole chicken. After a few days the cells will settle down and it'll jump off the output tray and strut across the room, pecking the floor, looking for seed. Meet Frankenchicken. Or, an easier task, print out a juicy, perfectly roasted rare prime rib. The potential applications are endless. It shouldn't creep you out at all, but instead make you giggle -- in a demented, insane asylum sort of way. ;-)
To: Neville72
Does that mean Bill and Hillary will be around forever!!!.....AAAAAAAAAGGGGGGHHHHHHHHHH
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posted on
04/14/2006 10:00:52 AM PDT
by
goodnesswins
( "the left can only take power through deception." (and it seems Hillary & Company are the masters)
To: Neville72
A friend of mine, on May 15th, is giving one of her Kidney's to her best friend.....that is what I first thought of when I saw your post.....that and the thought of CERTAIN people living forever.
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posted on
04/14/2006 10:02:46 AM PDT
by
goodnesswins
( "the left can only take power through deception." (and it seems Hillary & Company are the masters)
To: doc30
Lol, yes, that's what I had in mind. Maybe they could figure out how to replace your brain a piece at a time, after half-a-dozen visits to the brain printing factory, say? That way, you could feel like you weren't just being copied with the original being tossed in the dumpster.
To: showme_the_Glory
But I thought it said Abby Normal....
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posted on
04/14/2006 10:12:44 AM PDT
by
SpottedBeaver
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To: Neville72
Actually this reminds me of the scene in "The Fifth Element" with Bruce Willis and Milla Jovovich when they re-create her just from a hand that was recovered from a crash.
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posted on
04/14/2006 10:19:22 AM PDT
by
rednesss
To: goodnesswins
"A friend of mine, on May 15th, is giving one of her Kidney's to her best friend....."
She should be commended. I hope it goes well. My brother lost a kidney 15 years from cancer, and the other one started failing a few years ago. He's been on dialysis and is doing really well, but the wait for a kidney is very long. It would be great if sometimes in the future replacement organs could be *printed* instead of having to wait for someone to die/donate an organ.
I'll be watching this with great interest.
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posted on
04/14/2006 10:20:56 AM PDT
by
CarolinaGuitarman
("There is grandeur in this view of life....")
To: Neville72
Of course the printer is cheap... it's the ink that gets your $$$ in the end... LOL
Still pretty cool...
To: Neville72
To: LibWhacker
Actually the brain may deteriorate through strokes, but most brains are active and actually improve connections and creativity through life.
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posted on
04/14/2006 10:22:38 AM PDT
by
GAB-1955
(being dragged, kicking and screaming, into the Kingdom of Heaven....)
To: robertpaulsen
Oh, you beat me to it bad. ROTFLMAO!
To: doc30
Imagine a geriatric ward where everyone is in great physical shape, everyone looks like gorgeous 20 somethings but all have Alzheimers.Sounds like Hollywood....
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posted on
04/14/2006 10:26:26 AM PDT
by
null and void
(<----nasty, brutish, and short...)
To: LibWhacker
it'll jump off the output tray and strut across the room, pecking the floor, looking for seedLOL...why not just print out the McNuggets directly.
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posted on
04/14/2006 10:27:08 AM PDT
by
Lekker 1
("Computers in the future may have only 1000 vacuum tubes..." - Popular Mechanics, March 1949)
To: Lekker 1
Instructions:
Print out this image in at least 300 dpi on a suitable color printer
season to taste
Enjoy
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posted on
04/14/2006 10:30:02 AM PDT
by
Lekker 1
("Computers in the future may have only 1000 vacuum tubes..." - Popular Mechanics, March 1949)
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