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Scientists Create 3D Bioprinter Capable of Printing Living Human Skin (ibtimes.co.uk)
New submitter drunkdrone quotes a report from International Business Times: Spanish scientists say they have developed a prototype 3D printer that is capable of printing "functional" human skin that can be used for transplant patients, as well as an ethical alternative to animal testing. The so-called bioprinter uses special "ink" consisting of human cells and other biological components to reproduce the natural structure of the skin, including the external epidermis and the deeper dermis layer. These "bio inks" are deposited from special injectors onto a print bed to produce skin that is bioactive and capable of producing its own human collagen, the researchers claim. This means that the 3D-printed skin is, in essence, living tissue, making it suitable for treating burn patients and for testing cosmetic, chemical and pharmaceutical products. According to UC3M, the technology could be used to print other human tissues, although first it needs to be approved by regulators in order to ensure the skin it produces is fit for use on human patients.
Does anyone remember the movie Darkman?
Here come the human looking robots.
Mark these two events:
Print human skin
Google allows us to address echo as computer
Do the following words sound familiar to you: "hooked into everything" "outside is human tissue, but underneath it is a hyper alloy combat chassis"
"You can't bargain with it; you can't reason with it"
Now do you remember??
So if that guy next to you reeks of sweat and bad breath, he may appear to be a homeless person, at first. Until he asks you what day it is; what year this is. Check his reaction when you answer him with, Relax, it is the year of the rooster! Then run
WARNING: Smartphones have side effects--most of them undocumented.
Then I can divorce my wife :)
I'm a black man born into a white man's body. I look forward to the day when I can become a fully cisblack male.
Print over a metallic exoskeleton?
Now all we need is to make it print directly over a metallic exoskeleton and it's all ready.
Skin tight t-shirts with various tattoos.
Black or white overcoat, as needed regionally
Skin tight body suit
Skin upholstered chairs
What about a skin pillowcase
Just endless ideas that were once sick and now its all possible
Wake me up when they make the liquid metal one from the second movie - I'll skip version one.
I have a feeling David Cronenberg will be shifting from cult to mainstream in the future.
Also, get ready for the next generation of fleshlights with feeding instructions.
T - 3 months. The approximate time before my H-1B arrives :D
Maybe it's because of your "liberal" schools that you need us. University degrees in smoking pot, playing games, and ass reaming just don't cut it in the modern economy.
If anyone thinks HP ink is expensive wait for the human cell ink pricing., gonna cost ya.
tastes like plastic chicken
Table-ized A.I.
While this technology had initially looked promising, the actual results fall quite short of expectations. There are numerous flaws with the product which do not make it a viable alternative, but the most egregious is the taste. Until this problem has been adequately addressed the only viable option is continuing to harvest it naturally.
So what will you be doing on your H1B? Game dev? Porn devop? QA testing those porn games in the popup ads? Oh right. You'll be coding popup ads.
Can the skin tone be modified? 3D printed tats? How about a zebra-stripe or checkerboard pattern? How about clear? What about rejection? Can I shave off my fingerprints and replace them with 3D printed ones?
The Russians have won. They have made the world a cesspool of distrust, greed, fear and hate.
"The so-called bioprinter uses" ... so-called? What else would you call it?
"... and capable of producing its own human collagen, the researchers claim."
"According to UC3M, the technology could be used to..."
This is a far cry from headlines that scream "SCIENTISTS ARE -", only to be followed by an article that says "Some scientists think that maybe one day soon -"
Use this to test drugs and cosmetics instead of letting those uppity bunnies get all the perks.
Living Human Skin sounds like a good theme for a horror.
I wonder if they will be able to print not only skin cells but hair follicles as well to be able to print custom animal fur. A cost effective fur printer could take over the industry and replace the old methods.
you see, an american is not willing to bring me my coffee for minimum wage. americans don't work as busboys. it's not because our schools don't teach you how to be a busboy. it's because a busboy is commodity busywork we don't want to do. a mexican construction worker gets paid minimum wage. an american one makes over 100k/year. the fact that mexicans are willing to do the same job as an american for half the price does not mean the americans can't do it. it means they don't want to, because it's become a shit job.
and don't even try to compare average indian quality of work or education to what we have in america. there's a very negative stereotype about your people being uneducated stupid idiots with shitty work quality. the only reason you get the same job done as an american is because you spend twice the time doing it. that stereotype became a stereotype as you indonigs started stinking up the office here. learn to use toilet paper first and pronounce words correctly.
when you make jokes about american education being worse than that shithole you're from - we laugh. hint: we're not laughing with you. we're laughing at you - your lack of culture, your lack of education, your lack of manners, your language, the way you smell, and that fact that you'll always be indian - a substandard human. And no matter what you do, your offspring will always have a little of that curry skin color in them.
Have I mentioned you're a fucking idiot? You're coming here to take someone's job for half their salary, and you're saying it's because they're poorly educated? No moron, it's because the guy can earn more than you so he'll get a different job, keeping his high salary that you dream of. Coding has become a low-skill unimportant monkey job, like bringing coffee.
Designer fingerprints anyone?
So what does the ProLife movement think about living skin? Can it be thrown in the trash? Oh my.
The BuffyBot gets ever closer to reality. Bigly!
Topologically speaking, a printer capable of making skin is a 2D printer, not a 3D printer.