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Bio-Printer Will (One Day) Print Organs for Transplant

Posted February 25, 2010 8:58 AM

From Neatorama:

Need a new kidney? Forget waiting for a transplant - why not print one? That's the idea behind the new 3D bio-printer by Organovo and Invetech: Organovo's 3D bio-printer works in a similar way to some rapid-prototyping machines used in industry to make parts and mechanically functioning models. These work like inkjet printers, but with a third dimension. Such printers deposit droplets of polymer which fuse together to form a structure.

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02/25/2010 1:57 PM

Well...this'll certainly be an improvement on the printed liver made from carbon-paper layers of ASCII characters that I've been using.
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02/25/2010 3:09 PM

This is the real deal - they expect to be done the trials in five years or so, and then their product is going to take the big bite out of these industries:

- anti-rejection drugs for transplant recipients... no longer needed

- organ trafficking by organized crime... sorry, no market for that

oh, and it's really cool gear. The full article quotes present cost of $200,000 for the bio-printer - - peh - - that's NOTHING. The organs from a single victim of organized crime would fetch more than that. Just goes to show.. criminals really are a bunch of stupid losers.

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