We remember hearing about "organ printing" a long time ago. It sounded like a fanciful process of precisely layering different tissues, all while keeping the cells within oxygenated and happy.
Well, progress has been made. According to Deseret Morning News in Utah, organ printers now have a substrate, or bio-paper, with which to work.
(Via Future Feeder.)
Sooner or later, "organ fabbing" will be big. Really big. Artificial intelligence may even arrive in the form of a completely fabbed brain, perhaps that of a wealthy patient seeking a surrogate form of immortality.
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Hi Mac -
With the advances in "rapid prototyping", and the advent of biological/dimensional inks, it is only a matter of time. I'm curious if we'll be able to design "workarounds" for damaged areas of tissue and "print" replacement 3D chunks to replace rather than excise. Might be easier than printing whole organs at least at first.
Kyle
UFOreflections.blogspot.com
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