Scientists "Print" Human Vein With 3D Printer 94
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CmdrTaco
from the because-we-can dept.
from the because-we-can dept.
An anonymous reader writes "3D Printing technology has recently leapt into a new realm — we've seen printers that can create entire buildings out of stone, delicious meals out of simple ingredients, and now — perhaps weirdest and coolest of them all — a printer that can build body parts from cells!"
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For those who want two or three, perhaps? Specifically to add to other regions for convenience and multitasking?
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A friend with three is a friend indeed!
There are 12 models (Score:3, Funny)
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Am I the only one who read that as "There are 12" models?
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But can it scan and fax? (Score:2, Funny)
So when do I get my replicator? (Score:5, Funny)
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Waiter, there is Core Dump in my soup!
Please modulate your tone, Sir, or everyone will want one.
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screw the universe, I've got a job for your Leeloo where she doesn't even need to stand up
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screw the universe, I've got a job for your Leeloo where she doesn't even need to stand up
You're limiting your variety extensively, much to your loss I suspect. But to each their own. If I had a Leeloo I'd definitely have her standing up, seated, bent over, in the shower, and any other way I could accomplish with gravity, or without since we're dreaming anyway.
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Screw that, how soon until I get my own kung-fu Milla Jovovich to blow me.
Re:A little more respect is in order (Score:3, Funny)
Perhaps you should rethink your level of politeness if you ever get a chance to ask a "kung fu MJ" to blow you. Try something a little more cajoling, and little less "likely to get your little one-eyed weasel ripped off."
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How about an smart on?
"Tea."
After the fiorst time, it should know how the hell I want my tea.
And Damn Star Trek fro that. As someone who has enjoyed Earl Grey tea since the 70's and I like Star Trek all of a sudden I was 'copying' Capt. Picard. That not just insulting that I would choose a beverage based on what a fictional character enjoys, but that if I did that it would be from Picard!
For a while I just drank Double bergamot to avoid the obvious and incoming remarks.
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Be careful, or you might get a machine that always gives you a drink that is almost, but not quite, entirely unlike tea. Share and enjoy!
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Be careful, or you might get a machine that always gives you a drink that is almost, but not quite, entirely unlike tea. Share and enjoy!
Don't hate on drinks that are almost, but not quite, entirely unlike tea. With one, you can do even the most infinitely improbably things, like visit Earth.
a smart one? (Score:2)
After the fiorst time, it should know how the hell I want my tea.
If it was truly smart it would bring me vodka.
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How about an smart on?
sorry, but I had to stop reading right there.
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As someone who has enjoyed Earl Grey tea since the 70's and I like Star Trek all of a sudden I was 'copying' Capt. Picard. That not just insulting that I would choose a beverage based on what a fictional character enjoys...
Meh, why worry over it? I also like Star Trek (even TNG) and enjoy Earl Grey tea as well, but I've never caught any flack over the coincidence (and like you, that's exactly what it is). My response to any one who would make comments that I was copying Capt. Picard would be, "Don't you have anything relevant or at the very least, interesting to worry about?"
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I actually first tried Earl Grey because of ST: TNG. But I drink it lukewarm, because I'm different and edgy like that.
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How about an smart on?
Can the Head On people sell it?
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Tea. Earl Grey. Hot.
Having root access, I had already added
+arsenic
to the file /etc/print/tea.conf
Just think of the clear skin you will have.
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You can create body parts, and you ask for... TEA?
How about t..its! :D
Or even a load of hot but dumb and horny women?
Those other things are really interesting... (Score:5, Informative)
Since TFS didn’t:
References: 3-D Printer Creates Entire Buildings From Solid Rock [inhabitat.com], MIT’s Digital Food Printer Creates Nutritious Meals [inhabitat.com]
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Thank you. The author must have forgot about the internets that can create links out of hypertext.
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I’ve just had an epiphany.
That must have hurt.
They get you with the cartridges (Score:5, Funny)
Red-blood-cell-gut-and-bone cartridges are not balanced to printing needs.
You are always running out of blood when you still have nearly full gut and bone reservoirs. But they make you replace the whole cart.
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You don't need to pay into their razor-and-blades business model. It's trivial to refill the carts yourself, provided you have a handy source of blood, guts, and bone.
The only catch is if you plan on using the printouts for your own use... you can't use just any random hobo as a source of material, you need a match in blood type, antigens, etc. I suggest harvesting your
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And the cartridges cost an arm and a leg.
Great - now my inbox will fill up with... (Score:1, Funny)
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Get the email-enabled model, and your inbox will fill up with actual SPAM.
Mmmmm.
Re:Great - now my inbox will fill up with... (Score:4, Funny)
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Are you going to be taking your 3-D SPAM faxes into the woods too?
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Fingerprints (Score:5, Funny)
Excellent! Now I can print my epidermal cells in the pattern of a new set of fingerprints, transplant that skin to my fingers, and leave traces of CmdrTaco at crime scenes across the world!
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Actually this is what I was thinking too, but in more serious terms. Entire organs are most likely decades away from happening (at least with this type of technology). Most likely the first users will want this technology for reasons similar to what you described. Someone in Mossad or MI5 is probably dancing with joy about now.
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> Someone in Mossad or MI5 is probably dancing with joy about now.
Well, if it's documented, wouldn't it be ammo for the defense of somebody suspected ?
Mossad or MI5 prefer undocumented tools...
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It doesn't require such a great leap of imagination. If this is what documented technology can do, imagine what the military grade, secret developments are capable of. Just saying.
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fake fingerprints - can't you do that with a rubber cement mold?
That's why our criminal justice system's standard is "beyond a reasonable doubt." You can claim that Moussad framed you or that aliens did ittoday. You'd just have to convince a jury of your peers that such a situation is reasonable
(you're better off impugning the lab that did the fingerprint match.)
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> Someone in Mossad or MI5 is probably dancing with joy about now.
Well, if it's documented, wouldn't it be ammo for the defense of somebody suspected ?
Intelligence agents know better than to document their joy-dances.
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That rat heart story is exciting, but it's not organ printing. I'd urge caution about the heart experiment. It's cool that they pulled it off, but some of the caveats from the Nature Medicine paper reporting it are that it doesn't beat nearly as strongly as a normal heart, nor is it beating properly in time. No actual blood flow has been pushed through the thing, so we don't know if it can perform well enough to replace even diseased tissue in a person. Finally, if you think about doing this in a person, yo
Re:Fingerprints (Score:4, Insightful)
Why bother with the transplant? Just press the printed skin against a few things. As long as it has the same oils as normal skin, you'll get good fingerprints. If it's the right temperature, it should fool most biometric sensors too (and a lot of existing ones even without that).
And then can we shoot whoever thought it was a good idea to use something that you leave on everything that you touch as a replacement for a password?
And thus the scientists... (Score:5, Funny)
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Ewwww, this report is bleeding.
Sounds good. (Score:1)
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they'll cost you at least an arm and a leg...
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I think we've covered this ground before. [slashdot.org]
Yes, it's sort of a dupe. Same company. I suppose the breakthrough is actually demonstrating 3d printing of tissue, rather that just announcing you'll do it.
In any event, if anyone feels the need to make any jokes about ink cost, cartridge DRM, or other wildly hilarious topics, please just use a reference to the older comments. Thanks.
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In any event, if anyone feels the need to make any jokes about ink cost, cartridge DRM, or other wildly hilarious topics, please just use a reference to the older comments. Thanks.
Thanks for that. I have a puppy. Want to kick it?
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we seriously need a thumbs up option...
HA HA HA HA HA HA HA HA HA....
Isn't this a dupe? (Score:1, Redundant)
The Real Money (Score:3, Interesting)
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Wouldn't the really really big payoff be when they get to the point of printing out a celebrity sexbot?
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Re:Printer? (Score:4, Insightful)
They're called printers because they build things in layers with positioned spraying or placement in 2D. Cars aren't printed now, but if they were it might make them cheaper.
Well, sure. For the masses (Score:3, Interesting)
But a few people will always appreciate the fine craftsmanship of an artisan heart.
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But a few people will always appreciate the fine craftsmanship of an artisan heart.
With fava beans and a nice chianti.
a new argument in the office. . . (Score:2)
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Blood Type AB Load Letter, what the fsck does that mean?
Replicators! (Score:1)
At UWMC we've been making parts for years (Score:3, Informative)
Actually, we have been doing scaffolding work on various body parts for years, including livers and other organs.
The hard one is the heart - the cardiovascular veins are easier to replace one by one though.
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I'd heard the scaffolding was going pretty well; taking pig organs, stripping away the cells with some kind of solvent, leaving the collagen-based scaffolding, then 'doping' the scaffold with the patient's cells to produce a perfect 'match' organ - with the success the doctors had with the South American woman a while ago (and more recently with a 10 yr old boy - http://www.bionews.org.uk/page_56929.asp) I'd hoped this kind of rejection-free organ replacement was *very* close to being more generally availab
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One of the useful results of the insane rejection of stem cell research was the exception for researchers to use their own cells, which is where we got some of this from.
We've also found that moms carry the pluripotent stem cells of all their children, including stillbirths and abortions inside them, which has both positive (increased immunity) and negative (resistance factors) impacts.
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I hope you guys get serious about making some lungs. I need a new pair thanks to some chemo/rad therapy I received. Thanks!
It's Called Tissue Engineering (Score:3, Informative)
It's typically referred as Tissue Engineering [wikipedia.org] and it's been around for a while. Systems have been available for research purposes for a few years O.N.E. Technologies Material Deposition Systems [onelabs.com]
Right in the middle of printing a new organ... (Score:1)
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Right in the middle of printing a new eyeball:
PC LOAD LUTEIN
One step closer (Score:1)
Is this a dup? (Score:2)
I'm pretty sure I saw this in /. recently.
Finally (Score:3, Funny)
Now I can send thinly veined insults across the nets
How soon before Print Bigger Penis Spam? (Score:1)