Create Living Cells With an Inkjet Printer 100
MattSparkes writes to tell us New Scientist has an article on the use of inkjet printing technology in creating biological tissue. From the article "An inkjet device that prints tiny 'bio-ink' patterns has been used to simultaneously grow two different tissues from the stem cells of adult mice. Surgeons could one day use the technology to repair various damaged tissues at the same time, the researchers say."
This lends a whole new meaning... (Score:2, Funny)
But imagine the price of ink (Score:5, Funny)
Works great until... (Score:2, Funny)
Overheard in an Operating Room (Score:5, Funny)
w00t! (Score:4, Funny)
BWAHAHA! Beowulf cluster (Score:4, Funny)
People say I should go out and meet women but I think this is so much cooler!
Re:And I thought .... (Score:4, Funny)
Unfortunately, the technology was released prematurely and is still in its "Plug and Die" phase of development.
Printshop for Organs (Score:5, Funny)
Ooo! I saw this in a movie once! (Score:1, Funny)
Can it print me a copy of Milla Jovovich?
Re:Works great until... (Score:5, Funny)
Re:BWAHAHA! Beowulf cluster (Score:3, Funny)
Let's save someone some time (Score:5, Funny)
Protein structure for biochemical enforcement of growth factor ink expiry dates
ABSTRACT
A protein structure and associated amino acid sequence providing a set of functions for remotely enforcing expiry dates of growth factor ink.
Inventors: MillionthMonkey
Serial No.: 053243653216
Series Code: 10
Filed: December 11, 2006
Claims
1. An architecture for a system comprising: a greedy ink manufacturer, an end user, an ink expiration date, a hardware device capable of spraying growth factor protein containing inks into desired tissue growth patterns, an application program interface to support same.
2. An architecture as recited in claim 1, wherein a biochemical timer is implemented with adjustable expiry date settings that may be set at time of manufacture, via expression of a sequence of amino acids (see Attachment A) generating a protein that processes an RNA strand at a fixed rate.
3. An architecture as recited in claim 2, wherein an RNA template molecule of predetermined length is used at time of manufacture to control a timer as recited in claim 2.
4. An architecture as recited in claim 3, wherein a biochemical clock is employed to trigger denaturation of growth factor proteins as recited in claim 1.
5. An architecture as recited in claim 4, wherein the application program interface comprises: a first group of services related to discovery of an impending ink expiry event, a second group of services related to displaying numerous dialog boxes to the end user [as outlined in claim 1] asking for money, and a third group of services related to remotely extracting payment from an end user [as outlined in claim 1].
6. An application program interface as recited in claim 5, wherein the first group of services comprises: first functions that enable ink manufacturer to specify an expiry date [as recited in claim 3] and implement enforcement of the expiry date by having a biochemical timer [as recited in claim 4] trigger denaturation of growth factors used in gene expression inks.
CONCLUSION
Although the invention has been described in language specific to structural features and/or methodological acts, it is to be understood that the invention defined in the appended claims is not necessarily limited to the specific features or acts described. Rather, the specific features and acts are disclosed as exemplary forms of implementing the claimed invention.
And I'm off to the patent office! Later, suckas!
5th element (Score:3, Funny)
Re:w00t! (Score:5, Funny)
Why not skip vim and the printer and stick to your current latex-only girlfriend?
Re:Ooo! I saw this in a movie once! (Score:4, Funny)
Re:Ooo! I saw this in a movie once! (Score:2, Funny)
Re:Publication requirement. (Score:3, Funny)
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