Damn.

So, did the grad students get ahold of that equipment late at night and run some, uh, experiments?

I got one of those!

And that is all I'm gonna say!

Howdy 2kewl

No such luck

Don't tell the GOP. They'll outlaw it. It's playing god and all that tripe.

Of course, anything that helps people = evil to the gop. To hell with the gop!

we'll just have to print out more Liberals!

...right now!

joke

It's going to be so much cooler than that as technology advances.

About a mile from my house is the complex in the heart of Winston-Salem that houses some of what you are describing. It's a city within a city, and unbelievable amounts of research is taking place there. It's exhilarating and scary at the same time to know so much ground breaking work is happening here. We have the opportunity as citizens, once accepted into a program, to be part of some of these studies.
I am at the moment in an 18 month program studying arthritis in my knees. I had to jump through many hoops to get accepted, but now have a trainer by my side and 18 machines for 3 one hour workouts a week ----for free. I've done it a year, and the strength in my legs has improved by about 40 percent.

Yes, I'm a bit digressing from your "printing body parts" which I know they do ---- to telling you they are strengthening mine.
Same folks, and I'm glad they are here and pursuing their amazing work.

Best of luck to you.

Happy for you; I'll let her know about your experience.

on growing a person's skin in test tubes for future skin grafting purposes?

My granddaughter will need a lot of skin grafts when she is a little older. I'm hoping the Drs can grow her skin before the surgery to avoid having to cut skin for grafts from other parts of her body.

based on some things I read in local papers about the experimentation at WFU Baptist Hospital that the chances are good this is happening. I don't know how to find an in so you can officially ask the question, but I think it is a very good question, with possibly positive answers. If they are studying this, chances are they want volunteers.
If you want to very seriously pursue this, I have one person I can ask, the top person of the study I'm part of. Write to me in a pm, and I will make the attempt.

I have a neighbor that had a cancer on her nose...they removed the whole nose...nope, haven't seen it without bandages and I'm not asking to see it either.

She has had one appointment to begin work on a prosthetic so far.

Just don't use a HP printer.

Craftygal needs them

printed a liver in the 90's (I think it was a liver) and the recipient came on stage who had had it for a decade and was still alive and had never had to take rejection drugs because they grew it from his own stem cells(fat cells.)

I've been waiting for these printed organs to finally get there where they replace all missing organs with printed ones.

They will get there. This article is just more steps.

Another thing you should all be aware of, it's hard to find now, but TED talks also had scientists who found the age gene and something like the 16th in the dna strand(I don't remember exactly) and they flip it and made it possible for animals to live way past their normal life span and said it's likely humans could live 800 years where their cells continued to repair themselves instead of slowing down and stopping the repair - which is aging. All the people had to do was get some gene flipped cells and it would change every cell in their body. And they mentioned this is why Monsanto and changing genes in food is so bad.

I've went back looking for that TED talks series and not found that specific show on Netflix again. If someone knows which one it is, please tell. Our gov used to invest in research and development. Now it's corporations who do so and will only want profit. While printed organs will hit us, expect the gene flips and living 800 years to go to the rich.