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Create Living Cells With an Inkjet Printer
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 to the phrase "Getting some ink"
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I'm sure i could buy a new liver from the Russian mafia for less than the Lexmark ink required to print one.
You know they're going to gouge you for refills.
PC Load Letter? What the fuck does that mean?
that finding printer drivers for Linux was difficult....
Where the hell do you find a printer driver for this? I'm pretty sure it won't be from the Intelligent Design Printer company LOLOL
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This would make a good premise for the sequel, eh?
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I saw a highschool-aged kid show one of these off at the Florida State Science Fair several years ago. I had heard about the concept prior as well. While it is an interesting idea, it should not be presented as brand-spanking new.
I'm gonna make me a new girlfriend using only LaTeX and vim.
I, for one, welcome our new inkjet printed overlords!
Now imagine if I have a Beowulf cluster of these... I could instruct them to print out THE PERFECT (NAKED) WOMAN! Bwahahaha!
People say I should go out and meet women but I think this is so much cooler!
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This adds whole new dimensions to the work-day-after embarrassment of getting drunk at the office Christmas party and making photocopies of your ass.
I'd really like to print out my own heart to give to my girlfriend on Valentine's Day. I think it would be bloody sweet.
Ok, who used all the ink printing all these black market KIDNEYS?
Come on! Cut to the chase! There's only one question I need answered:
Can it print me a copy of Milla Jovovich?
United States Patent Application 732980759-32754321
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!
They're not creating cells. They are 'claiming' to have allegedly created tissues by using the inkjet to spray non-differentiated stem cells on to a substrate. Doesn't sound like they're close to selling skin tissue to burn victims yet, though.
Yeah, but with the prices of ink jet cartridges, who could afford it!!!
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does the poor critter come out like that badly beamed crew member in the first star trek movie?
intellectual property law is philosophically incoherent. it is your moral duty to ignore it or sabotage it
Sure, but buy in bulk so you'll have enough left over to grow her some tits.
The eternal struggle of good vs. evil begins within one's self.
Screw that. Just make the tits.
If you can read this, I forgot to post anonymously.
Tech: When did you noticed the paper jam?
Customer: Last week.
Tech: That's too bad. Your printer died over the weekend. You need to call an undertaker since your warrantry doesn't cover disposal of the body.
Sorry, all I'm seeing is Kentucky Fried Children.
Humanity will inevitably learn new technologies to cheaply and exactly replicate patterns of matter, much as we currently are able to flawlessly and freely share patterns of information. The profound economic effects modern computing has wrought on society are about to be repeated in another echo of the Industrial and Agricultural Revolutions.
First we somehow learned how to share information, person-to-person, with language. Ten thousand years ago we used that to develop agriculture; we learned how to replicate plants. Then we automated that with the help of domesticated farm animals and handmade tools. We systematized all of this, and then figured out how to globally replicate and distribute the instructions for making the tools themselves. Another cycle gets us where we are today, where we can use all of the available knowledge and tools to design the *next* generation of whatever it is we're trying to do with ourselves.
So where are we going with all this, besides "burning" a batch of Viagra, Ciprofloxacin, LSD, or flu vaccine on your desktop? Maybe we need to keep an open source perspective, so you can at least cook up some aspirin as *FREELY* as you can play an .ogg. You might have to listen to Beethoven while you wait, because Britney, Beck, and Björk are still locked down (although your grandfather might have left you an illicit DVD with the Beatles discography as ancient MP3s).
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All this talk of organs and body parts... Screw that, I'm hungry -- can they use it to grow muscle tissue? Mmm, printed meat.
Once the technology gets established enough to be cheap, it sounds like it might actually become more energy-efficient than raising livestock. And it should be ethically acceptable for vegetarians -- wouldn't some of them at least, who aren't too spooked by the "sciencey-ness" of the whole thing, agree that since the meat didn't come from an animal, it's okay to eat?
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Looks like we don't have to wait for the year 1314 to print human tissue! Woot!
The system isn't actually creating living cells. It's laying existing cells down into a pattern to form tissues. The title, "Create Living Cells With an Inkjet Printer" seems to imply that it's putting together molecules to form cells. (Is it "printing" the nucleotide sequences of DNA and RNA, "printing" mitochondria, "printing" amino acid sequences so that they form working 3-dimensional proteins, placing sugars and hormones inside those cells? Is it laying down a thin cell-wall with species-specific proteins embedded in that wall?) The answer is no, it's not doing any of that. We aren't capable of doing that, and even if we were, it would require a massive database of information that's much larger than the data stored in the human genome.
With a pair of eyeballs acquir^W printed by a strange Japanese man? And little spidery things crawling all over the place?
What a future. I, for one, welcome our new Animated, Noise-making Cereal Box Overlords!
How are sites slashdotted when nobody reads TFAs?
They're different, but hardly anything that's a new sensational breakthrough.
Now you can print your own pr0n. Or pony.
With stories like these, why bother to RTFA?
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I, for one, welcome our new bio-ink printer generated stem cells overlord.
Absence of the "body" of the patent would imply either of two things:
Yes, and that's also the reason why software patents should contain the full source code of a reference implementation of the claimed algorithm.
All that being said, a sufficiently corrupt patent office court would still uphold it.
I was expecting a howto article...
That sounds familiar...
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Yet another erroneous Slashdot headline. These living cells are not "created," they are grown from existing stem cells. It's not like you put a nonliving substrate "in" the printer and get a spleen "out." The printer simply guides the cells' differentiation patterns.
Cost of a standard no frills lexmark printer: $19.99 Cost of a new inject cartridge: $29.99 1. Give away free razors 2. Charge, FAR OUT THE ASS for the razors. 3. ??? 4. Profit
The more paranoid amongst us would speculate that this sort of capability is one of the reasons that companies are scrabbling around so much trying to perfect Treacherous Computing and DRM.
You can bet your butt that as soon as the first device capable of manufacturing all of the parts involved in its own construction from simple raw materials is produced, a "matterware hacker" is going to feel the urge to make an open-source variant. From there on it's an inevitable progression to the complete breakdown of the consumer society - why purchase products from a big company when you can download the specs and print your own? Make your own energy collectors and raw material processors and your only constraints would be time and knowledge. And the beauty of knowledge is that when people get together and hand it around for free, everyone becomes richer without impoverishing themselves.
This idea of course, terrifies those who are hooked on the hierarchical structure of power and control that looms over our world today, either because they fear destructive chaos or because they are addicted to the power. But if these technologies are pursued to their logical limits, the only possible end states are universal wealth, universal control, or global extinction. Mankind has proven time and again that if you can conceive of a technology, and it is possible, then it will be achieved. If freedom is to prevail, then the hackers are going to have to be the ones to save us all.
Ok, maybe DRM is explicable in terms of present content-industry greed. But DRM on "matterware" is a logical extension, and the stakes are far higher than whether you get to listen to the latest RIAA sponsored aural insult or watch the steam rise from the latest Hollywood heap.
Cool! So I'll soon be able to create the Perfect Being -- the redhead from The Fifth Element (Milla Jovovich).
Sounds very similar and very old
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Thursday, December 02, 2004 05:00 PM http://www.pcworld.com/article/id,118815-page,1/a
01 February, 2005 7:00 a.m http://www.livescience.com/technology/050201_skin
Wednesday, 19th January 2005 http://www.manchestereveningnews.co.uk/news/s/143
Come on get with it, i have already built my clone army using disposable printers thought it was common knowledge.
Yawn... these Nu "Scientist" fairy tales and bedtime stories make me sleepy. Wake me up when you have some real science and technology stories.
'It looks like you're trying to assemble a merciless army of clones. Do you want to switch to merciless clone template design mode?'
it doesn't actually create living cells as implied. It looks more like it makes a growth template for stem cells to use, as well as possibly planting them.
Still useful mind you. But creating functional cells de-novo? No. That would be extremely nice, and probably the most nobel-worthy discovery in biology since Watson & Crick's nice little discovery (even if it didn't require a printer, just doing it would be quite useful)...
Sadly, not yet.
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As an individual who has a serious bone defect from an accident, this is very exciting news. Honestly, try wandering around thought life with one femur 2 inches shorter than the other. There are many folks out there who could really benefit from this technology. While it's fun to crack wise or debate the morality of the issue when you don't need the help this process could offer, remember that there are a lot of people who have been praying for something like this for a long time. Check out a children's hospital some time and see how many little ones could be helped by this.
News thats old. Stuff thats stale.
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http://www.physorg.com/news2734.html
YAWN.
Call me when someone is using it for something productive. Otherwise, I'm filing tissue printing in the same bin as fuel cells - especially micro fuel cells - the only time you hear about it is when the research money is running low.
(yeah, I need another cup of coffee.. but still)
..don't panic
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What would be really cool is if they could turn this technology around and build something like the "regeneration" machine in The Fifth Element...
Instead of Nip/Tuck it would be Cut/Paste
You would have to be careful if you were to do a face lift, though. If you use a coprighted image, the person would come out with the word VOID printed across their new face... Not that the wouldn't be funny too.....
Kind of reminiscent of the Futurama episode "I Dated A Robot" where they download celebrities onto blank robots.
Knowing Google's lust for data collection, the Soviet Union is still alive and well inside the psyche of Sergey Brin....
So now when one receives anthrax through e-mail, it won't necessarily be an MP3 attachment; it could be a PostScript attachment instead.
Oh, say does that Star-Spangled Banner entwine / The myrtle of Venus with Bacchus's vine?
That stuff costs an arm and a leg.
i dont get any ads at all ps; ur nickname demonstrates stupidity.
Finally, i can travel faster fax'ing myself.
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