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Scientists "Print" Human Vein With 3D Printer

Posted by CmdrTaco on from the because-we-can dept.

An anonymous reader writes "3D Printing technology has recently leapt into a new realm — we've seen printers that can create entire buildings out of stone, delicious meals out of simple ingredients, and now — perhaps weirdest and coolest of them all — a printer that can build body parts from cells!"

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  1. So when do I get my replicator? by TheRedDuke · · Score: 5, Funny

    Tea. Earl Grey. Hot.

  2. Those other things are really interesting... by clone53421 · · Score: 4, Informative

    Since TFS didn’t:

    we've seen printers that can create entire buildings out of stone, delicious meals out of simple ingredients

    References: 3-D Printer Creates Entire Buildings From Solid Rock, MIT’s Digital Food Printer Creates Nutritious Meals

    --
    Alexander Peter Kristopeit bought his basement from his mommy for one dollar.
  3. They get you with the cartridges by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 5, Funny

    Red-blood-cell-gut-and-bone cartridges are not balanced to printing needs.

    You are always running out of blood when you still have nearly full gut and bone reservoirs. But they make you replace the whole cart.

  4. Fingerprints by drunken_boxer777 · · Score: 4, Funny

    Excellent! Now I can print my epidermal cells in the pattern of a new set of fingerprints, transplant that skin to my fingers, and leave traces of CmdrTaco at crime scenes across the world!

  5. And thus the scientists... by Sumbius · · Score: 5, Funny

    had invented a printer which had provided them with a plastic cup filled with a blob of cells that was almost, but not quite, entirely unlike a human vein.