Fire up the Replicator!

A while back I was telling you about 3D printers and how they may evolve one day into the replicators off of Star Trek. Well they apparently are advancing the printing concept by leaps and bounds. I'm not even going to try to summarize this for you. You need to read this for yourself.

This is from the following web site:

http://www.ideaconnection.com/new-inventions/first-3d-printed-skin-stem-cells-06745.html

Researchers have developed a way to use a 3D printer to print human skin cells, which has previously been prohibitively difficult due to the delicacy of skin cells.

The printer, created by team of from Heriot-Watt University in Scotland and led by Will Shu, features specialized, adjustable valves. Because the rate at which the cells are released can be controlled, this allowed the team to print the stem cells as tiny spheres without damaging their fragile structures.

This is the first time such cells have been 3D printed, and the team hopes the advanced technique will help in the development of new and more effective drugs by providing a way to make more accurate human tissue models for testing. Ultimately, the goal is to create 3D organs that can be used as medical implants made from the patient’s own cells.

How incredible is that! Can you imagine how this would change medical care? Defective heart... No problem, we have the blue print for an olympic athletes heart right here... we do some genetic coding and BOOM BABY! New high performance ticker.

We really are headed to some really cool science fiction breakthroughs. 

Let me know what you think. Leave a comment or email me your thoughts on this technology. 

-Red

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