Organovo Has Its First Commercial 3D Bio-Printer 91
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kkleiner writes "Organovo and strategic partner Invetech hope in 2010 to release a commercial version of their 3D organ printer capable of producing very basic tissues like blood vessels. While it is still limited to simple tissue structures (full organs are a long ways off), Organovo plans to deliver the printers to various research institutions interested in organ and tissue production. Working with these institutions, Organovo hopes to one day progress to creating a system that can print organs as easily as other 3D printers print plastic figurines."
Dead tree organs are so 90s (Score:3, Insightful)
I demand digital organs in a sleek package that looks good in starbucks, complete with DRM and remote kill capability to protect the consumers!
Re:The obvious market driver is... (Score:1, Insightful)
Dicks? That's natural, I believe.
Re:Hmm... (Score:2, Insightful)
Re:5th Element - Fact not fiction? (Score:2, Insightful)
Well, not only body; it went also into "rubbish" territory by recreating the brain...
Re:Hmm... (Score:4, Insightful)
Re:The obvious market driver is... (Score:4, Insightful)
the first thing I thought about when I read "3D organ printer" was -- well, you know.
Was it "I bet there'll be a run on legal-size* printer paper..."
*For those in countries other than that United States, please read that as "ISO B-4".
Thanks.
INVEST NOW (Score:1, Insightful)
These guys will put fleshlight out of business!!
It comes down to how good the scaffold is (Score:3, Insightful)
One thing they didn't mention in this writeup that many people could truly benefit from, though, is that the printer could potentially make better organs than the ones being replaced. Another poster here asked about heart valves - the printer could potentially print a heart with better valves than the problem heart (which could be more beneficial to the patient than replacing only the valves).