[dirtboy]

Pretty amazing stuff.

[Al Simmons]

This is just too weird for words...shades of X-Files...

[peyton randolph]

Perhaps the FSM has a really big printer. :-)

[American_Centurion]

All I have to do is hold on for another 10-20 years and I can begin replacing worn out stuff. Simply amazing.

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[robertpaulsen]

"SITTING in a culture dish, a layer of chicken heart cells beats in synchrony."

One evening while sweeping the floor, a careless janitor knocked over the glass.
CRASH!
When he went to get something to clean up the mess, the chicken heart started to grow.
Thump-thump. Thump-thump.

[CarolinaGuitarman]

There would seem to be so many applications of this, it's staggering to think of what this could mean. Hopefully it pans out and can be replicated with sufficient reliability.

[Balding_Eagle]

Sex change operations just got a leg up!

[LibWhacker]

Other tissue engineers have tried printing 3D structures, using modified ink-jet printers which spray cells suspended in liquid (New Scientist, 25 January 2003, p 16).

I remember that article. Had no idea it meant they'd be printing out beating hearts within about three years.

H-O-L-Y COW! Too amazing.

[hang 'em]

And millions of Falun Gong prisoners breath a sigh of relief

[Lekker 1]

When layers of chicken heart cells were printed they quickly begin behaving as they would in a real organ. "After 19 hours or so, the whole structure starts to beat in a synchronous manner

Am I the only one this creeps out?

[shezza]

Images of the T-1000 from "Terminator 2" spring to mind, the liquid pool bonding with other nearby droplets to form ... something.

[showme_the_Glory]

Don't use the brain labeled ABNORMAL...........

[rednesss]

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.

[MD_Willington_1976]

Of course the printer is cheap... it's the ink that gets your $$$ in the end... LOL

Still pretty cool...

[republicagal]

neat

[gaijin]

Sciperio, Inc.

[bert]

I bett that within a year the penis enlargement e mails will talk about the technique. a home kit will only be $200 and works with any computer.

[Wiz]

This was also news on physorg.com weeks ago. I remember they provided a movie clip of the news.

[grey_whiskers]

I guess this is a call to...umm, err, "SHORT" any Viagra-type stocks.

Cheers!