The first 3D-printed human stem cells

http://www.extremetech.com/extreme/147647-the-first-3d-printed-human-stem-cells

by memoryfailure • 13 years ago

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samwillis• 13 years ago

Even as a Product Designer I tend to sigh when I see articles about 3D printing, especially when they start saying that everything in the future will be printed.

However this is very exciting! This is using 3D printing where it truly will make a difference. I suspect its a good few tens of years off though...

arethuza• 13 years ago

I expect we've got a pretty large domestic market here in Scotland for replacement livers.

melling• 13 years ago

"Researchers in ..."

I anxiously await for the day when that phrase starts with countries like Bolivia, Mongolia, Sudan, etc. It seems like there are only a few places where world class research is being done. When the rest of the world comes online, hopefully news like this happens daily.

ludflu• 13 years ago

relevant visualization of where research happens: http://www.nature.com/polopoly_fs/7.8087.1355853889!/image/c...

guimarin• 13 years ago

I'm really curious about all the research coming out of Iran. would not have expected a country under lockdown to be doing so much research.

samstave2• 13 years ago

..."and as president, I promise to up our research unit output by a factor of 50%. I assure you my opponent does not have a comparable strategy for increasing research unit output - nor any other factors, such as his misguided job-unit creation plan."

samstave2• 13 years ago

I'd like to see the same visualization, but for the distribution of the nationalities/origin of the actual paper authors.

i.e. of the ~300K papers published in the US, how many of those papers were authored and co-authored by immigrants (H1-B, or naturalized) etc.

I suspect that a greater % of these papers were written by foreign born researchers.

graeham• 13 years ago

Interesting, but not as new as they'd like you to think (article below from 2004, and the article mentions organ printing first being mentioned in 1999).

http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/12679063

Tissue engineering has been the "next big thing" in biotech for a while, and 3D printing-style techniques have been a part of it for some time. It seems that its only recently been picked up by mainstream media.

newhouseb• 13 years ago

Yeah, here's a TED talk from 2011 about it: http://www.ted.com/talks/anthony_atala_printing_a_human_kidn...

I remember seeing this talk in person (spoiler alert) and midway through they dragged this up kid on stage who has been living with a bladder built via similar means for 10 years! Closest I've felt to Rip Van Winkle in my life.

thesorrow• 13 years ago

Just by printing a full human heart we'd be able to work until age 80 without feeling tired all day ..?

JoeAltmaier• 13 years ago

Confused: I read that title as creating cells. Instead they are printing using cells as the ink.

ddon• 13 years ago

I hate how they redirect to a "better" mobile experience page, and as soon as I see this is happening, I just hit back... How about you? PS. I use iPad mostly to read HN

The first 3D-printed human stem cells

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