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Organovo Has Its First Commercial 3D Bio-Printer
kkleiner writes "Organovo and strategic partner Invetech hope in 2010 to release a commercial version of their 3D organ printer capable of producing very basic tissues like blood vessels. While it is still limited to simple tissue structures (full organs are a long ways off), Organovo plans to deliver the printers to various research institutions interested in organ and tissue production. Working with these institutions, Organovo hopes to one day progress to creating a system that can print organs as easily as other 3D printers print plastic figurines."
the ink will almost be as expensive as HP's.
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You don't want to know how expensive the toner is.
You also don't want to know how gorey the remake of Office Space will be.
...porn. :)
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This, obviously, will remind several of us SciFi fans of the reconstruction scene in the Fifth Element -- which I am too lazy to track down and link right now, so I'll let some other person whore for the karma instead.
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Sounds a lot like that machine in 5th Element that recreated the entire body, bones and all, just from a genetic sequence marker left on a burned off hand.
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organs make printers...
3D Organ Printer?!
I'm waiting for my 3d xylophone printer!
I demand digital organs in a sleek package that looks good in starbucks, complete with DRM and remote kill capability to protect the consumers!
In related news, Hammond's stock dropped 17% today.
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...does PCLOADVISCERA mean, dammit?
For a fraction of the cost - we have your copy of a copy of a copy of a kidney!
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Print your our hot babe!
Can it be used for plastic surgery? (Mmmm... breasts! (drool)) Seriously, wouldn't this be far preferable to plastic bags full of silicone gel or salt water?
I've abandoned my search for truth; now I'm just looking for some useful delusions.
I'd like four bottles of your finest whiskey and one new liver please.
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Quick, somebody get me to a Kinkos!
My work here is dung.
If, when this technology has become sufficiently advanced, will a heart that is produced be, in fact, a living organ? Is it enough to put all of the materials in the right place? It's not clear to me that a heart removed from a cadaver will serve to complete a heart transplant surgery. Just how well does this work?
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They can print organs? Imagine what can be done for the porn scene. Triple tits, like in total recall? Double dongs? So you can DP someone by yourself?
I hope it can print heart valves. I am not an expert, but those look simple and printed heart valves can help a lot of people.
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Now, I do assume that extra hands will not be available for quite some time but why a single boob?
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Could I get a liver with a two lifetime warranty?
I might need it.
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Nurse, get another ream of US Letter in Tray 2, stat!
to making an ass print with a copy machine.
These guys will put fleshlight out of business!!
... from the hunchbacked lab assistant union. This technology could mean the death of the time honored skilled trade of mad science related grave robbery.
Now you'll have to clean out organ jams.
You need a good extracellular matrix (or as they say, "scaffold") to make good multicellular tissue or organ. Ideally, if the cells are correct for the application - and given the right stimuli - they will eventually make their own matrix for the application.
One thing they didn't mention in this writeup that many people could truly benefit from, though, is that the printer could potentially make better organs than the ones being replaced. Another poster here asked about heart valves - the printer could potentially print a heart with better valves than the problem heart (which could be more beneficial to the patient than replacing only the valves).
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i look forward to the day when we can be charged with copyright infringement for downloading .organ files :)
but seriously, physical printers may be the final blow to long-standing economic theories - if you can download the mp3 as well as the ipod, what's left to sell (that you can sell)?
Replace with new Stem Cell/Cartilage/Carbohydrate triple-pack to avoid service interruption...
seriously, who wrote this ?
"Organovo and strategic partner Invetech hope in 2010 to release a commercial version of their 3D organ printer capable of producing very basic tissues like blood vessels."
for the Repo Man.
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Organovo has a strange web page. I was wondering where they are located: no information on that. Contact only by web form. Are they real? Google thinks so, but can I trust them?
So, how long will it be before some wiseguy sends a phallus to the printer to piss someone off?
Could this simplify the proposed new treatment for MS? Instead of "surgically opening up blocked veins", just construct an appropriate bypass.
"Consensus" in science is _always_ a political construct.