Bioprinting
April 12, 2006 4:56 PM Subscribe
Bioprinting. "Sitting in a culture dish, a layer of chicken heart cells beats in synchrony. But this muscle layer was not sliced from an intact heart, nor even grown laboriously in the lab. Instead, it was "printed", using a technology that could be the future of tissue engineering."
I don't imagine you'd want to run Windows on machines that were being used to print organs. Puts a whole new spin on 'blue screen of death'.
posted by Malor at 5:32 PM on April 12, 2006
posted by Malor at 5:32 PM on April 12, 2006
[The technique] relies on droplets of "bioink", clumps of cells a few hundred micrometres in diameter, which ... behave just like a liquid.
And I bitch about the price of printer cartridges now!
posted by rob511 at 5:51 PM on April 12, 2006
And I bitch about the price of printer cartridges now!
posted by rob511 at 5:51 PM on April 12, 2006
"It's in your home state! It's outside of YOUR DOOR!"
They couldn't have used anything other than a chicken heart, could they? They were just in a department meeting deciding what to create, and they noticed somebody had left a copy of Wonderfulness lying around, didn't they?
posted by MrBadExample at 9:04 PM on April 12, 2006
They couldn't have used anything other than a chicken heart, could they? They were just in a department meeting deciding what to create, and they noticed somebody had left a copy of Wonderfulness lying around, didn't they?
posted by MrBadExample at 9:04 PM on April 12, 2006
Printing organs is theft of god's IP.
posted by srboisvert at 12:22 AM on April 13, 2006
posted by srboisvert at 12:22 AM on April 13, 2006
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