Growing organs from scratch

[morriswalters 16]

www.popsci.com/technology/article/2010-01/video-artificial-organs-made-printer-grown-scratch

If they perfect this type of technology the world could change.

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[Easy Bakes 253]

Printer cartridges are already too expensive.

Amazing technology though.

More amazing is they will get to bypass the rejection problem since they take the cells from the person

who will be getting the organ.

I dont see how this will help people whos organs fail from genetic problems

or in accidents that damage organs.I guess it depends how fast thier printer is.

[A Nonny Moose 8,262]

How ever you look at this, it beat harvesting organs from a fresh cadaver by about ten thousand rows of Christmas trees.

[fukuda 351]

Great stuff! The most amazing thing is realizing the team's inspiration and brilliance to come up with such ideas and methods (the printer thing was crazy) to solve the structural and conceptual problems.

Building a functional mammalian heart is a bit more complicated than just having contractile myocytes around a tube with valves however.

I dont see how this will help people whos organs fail from genetic problemsquote>

Just use cells from a healthy patient, they'll have to take immunosuppressor meds all their life but they'll live after all.

or in accidents that damage organs.I guess it depends how fast thier printer is.quote>

As long as the affected organ is not the brain we can use machines to replace the lost organ's function until the transplant is ready.

I don't really see how this is scary, though

[Easy Bakes 253]

Can you see the doctor have some one run down to Office Depot to get more Liver Ink?

[morriswalters 16]

fukuda

We're going too fast and our vision is too poor.  There was a time when things happened more slowly and we could integrate them, but computers have sped the process up too much.  We now move faster than thought, and it's going to catch up with us.

[A Nonny Moose 8,262]

Originally posted by: morriswalters

fukuda

We're going too fast and our vision is too poor.  There was a time when things happened more slowly and we could integrate them, but computers have sped the process up too much.  We now move faster than thought, and it's going to catch up with us.

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I guess we'll have to be like the Red Queen.  "You have to run ever so fast to keep up these days" or words to that effect. Charles L. Dodgson in Through the Looking Glass.

I wonder how many people said the same things during the 19^th century's industrial revolution.  And at the beginning of the 20^th century, along came the horseless carriage.  Imagine going more than 15 m.p.h. 

"Everything's up to date in Kansas City,

"They've gone about as far as they can go."  Oklahma!  I forget off hand who the lyricist is.

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[A Nonny Moose 8,262]

Originally posted by: Barbarossa

Originally posted by: morriswalters  We're going too fast and our vision is too poor.  There was a time when things happened more slowly and we could integrate them, but computers have sped the process up too much.  We now move faster than thought, and it's going to catch up with us.quote>

I think is more of an observation for mature adults.  Younger adults and Youth breathe modern technology like air.

Originally posted by: N_O_Body "They've gone about as far as they can go."  Oklahma!  I forget off hand who the lyricist is.quote>

You mean Hammerstein since Rodgers was the composer.  Also I understand that they based it on another's work... something with Lilacs in the title.

Barbarossa

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Thanks.  I don't hop into Wiki or other sources when I am posting because it is such a cheat.  Say, isn't Barbarossa the code name for Hitler's invasion of Joe Stalin?  If so, who are you planning to invade?

[Boggy1 45]

Aw man, this is very cool, and would save millions of lives.

I guess, the scary part is that with a sudden prolonging of life and a decrease in death rates, it will expediate the overpopulation crisis.

[Barbarossa 51]

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