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The next step: 3D printing the human body
The London Telegraph ^ | February 11, 2014 | Rhiannon Williams

Posted on 02/11/2014 5:16:53 PM PST by 2ndDivisionVet

Bioprinting, or the process of creating human tissues through 3D printers, is a highly contested area of technological innovation. Theoretically it could save the economy billions on a global scale, whilst boosting weak or war-torn countries' access to more affordable health care and provision, whether producing prosthetic limbs or highly customised fully-working human organs.

From a technological perspective, the rise and development of 3D printing and its capabilities will play an undeniable part in our future lives. But how does the process work?

UK-based company PrinterInks has teamed up with US startup Organovo, a company specialised in designing and printing functional human tissue for medical research and therapeutic applications, to create a visual guide to the subject.

3D printed human tissue is created by using modified printer cartridges and extracted cells, sourced from patient biopsies with respect to examining cancer cells, or stem cells. They're grown using standard techniques and cultured in a growth medium in dishes, allowing them to multiply.

Once enough cells have grown, they're collected and formed into spheroids or other shapes and loaded into a cartridge to create BioInk....

(Excerpt) Read more at telegraph.co.uk ...


TOPICS: Business/Economy; Culture/Society
KEYWORDS: 3dprinters; 3dprinting; bioprinting; body; human; humanbody; medicine; transplants

1 posted on 02/11/2014 5:16:53 PM PST by 2ndDivisionVet
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To: 2ndDivisionVet

where can I get me a new one??


2 posted on 02/11/2014 5:18:22 PM PST by GeronL (Vote for Conservatives not for Republicans!)
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To: 2ndDivisionVet

will Obamacare cover a body replacement?

or just a generic brand?


3 posted on 02/11/2014 5:18:58 PM PST by GeronL (Vote for Conservatives not for Republicans!)
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To: 2ndDivisionVet

Where can I download the Cheryl Ladd template?


4 posted on 02/11/2014 5:19:54 PM PST by FlJoePa ("Success without honor is an unseasoned dish; it will satisfy your hunger, but it won't taste good")
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To: GeronL

Cardboard and chicken bones.


5 posted on 02/11/2014 5:21:43 PM PST by 2ndDivisionVet (Jealousy is when you count someone else's blessings instead of your own.)
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To: 2ndDivisionVet

argh


6 posted on 02/11/2014 5:22:06 PM PST by GeronL (Vote for Conservatives not for Republicans!)
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To: 2ndDivisionVet

By onvo stock...they do this.


7 posted on 02/11/2014 5:23:19 PM PST by for-q-clinton (If at first you don't succeed keep on sucking until you do succeed)
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To: 2ndDivisionVet; AFPhys; AD from SpringBay; ADemocratNoMore; aimhigh; AnalogReigns; archy; ...
3-D Printer Ping!

Some day her prints will come…

8 posted on 02/11/2014 5:27:24 PM PST by null and void (<--- unwilling cattle-car passenger on the bullet train to serfdom)
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To: 2ndDivisionVet; Revolting cat!; Slings and Arrows; GeronL; Lazamataz
Hopefully it's better than the one advertised in this old Hee Haw comic book.


9 posted on 02/11/2014 5:32:02 PM PST by a fool in paradise ("Health care is too important to be left to the government.")
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To: 2ndDivisionVet

Think Marty Feldman in “Young Frankerstein”

“He’ll be very popular...”


10 posted on 02/11/2014 6:05:20 PM PST by Insigne123 (It is the soldier, not the community organizer, who gives us freedom of the press)
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To: GeronL

I’d settle for a new right shoulder.


11 posted on 02/11/2014 6:37:18 PM PST by moovova
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To: 2ndDivisionVet

Only God gives us souls though...

You can have a body that lasts 500 years but eventually you’ll get hit by a hybrid Prius and die. best to keep on God’s good side.


12 posted on 02/11/2014 7:44:13 PM PST by Organic Panic
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