Organ Printing

[CliffThe1st]

So why isn't this already in use?

[grisgrisy]

you have some great stuff here

[osclarkos]

very interesting video thanks

[MrPotatoheadd]

Can you make clones as well? i bet you allready do..

[happinesson]

too good to be true. This can extend the life expectancy of people now a days.

[quennj92]

This blew my mind, but:

This process would be fantastic if say, a healthy organ was suddenly damaged, like in a accident. But what if the organ failed for other reasons, like old age? What are the implications of using old cells? Would the new organ fail more quickly then? Also, if the organ failed because of a genetic disorder, wouldn't the new one be just at risk of mutation and failure?

In both these cases, what's the longevity of these organs? What's the longevity of an ideal printed organ?

[DEEPENIMYLIFE]

I would like to know if tooth budding has been studies. I read about tooth budding in a sci-fi book "The Door Into Summer" by Robert A. Heinlein.

It is an area of health creation that would be hot! for all the baby boomers.

Hunter

[farwana94]

hi guys???

im doing a science project about this. do you guys know which natural processes cause the cell clusters to join and form a ring??

thanks

[johnlp4]

there is one video where they made a person's bladder. They put it into the person when he was 10. He is now 18 and doing fine. What you may not have thought of is that this procedure will be as common as going to the dentist in the future. Organs will not cost thousands upon thousands of dollars because they can be Printed to order. A person will not have to wait for months or years for an organ, it can be printed in a matter of a few days.

[Impulse116]

Where is your small comedian god now?

[thesecondislander]

You sire, are a Genius.

[Martintheess]

will it blend

[briperez]

Why print just any ordinary organ when you are able to create a superior one? I think that would be a better idea

[jojojo752000]

it would be alot easier to get a copie than a donor transplan

[sufisis]

Wondering how they control (if they do, in fact) the duplication of the cells...seems to open up a very big possibility for cancerous growth. Anyone else's thoughts on this?

[rlk6df]

@sufisis : The "duplication" of the cells is by standard cell growth protocol. I can say this with certainty because I am one of the people working at the University of Missouri conducting the research on this project.

[3004z]

This brings up a question. I'm sure the rich will be able to replace an organ for 50k or 100k a piece but what about the other "little" people? I doubt many would be able to pay for insurance that covers this. Who would give you a loan for this? Maybe you would have to pre-pay from very early on in your life. Should the government pay for it? I'm sure they would eventually go bankrupt. Otherwise you have no option than to just let nature take its course.

[8tropos]

@3004z

Why would that be the case ? The fact that (by example) every european needs to have health insurance (by law!) keeps the expensive and longitudinal health interventions out of capitalist speculation. If replacing a malfunctioning liver by a printed new one ones becomes the standard, the implications should be no different for the rich or the poor or the middle class. Your health insurance will cover it since they can't discriminate over essential things.

[3004z]

@8tropos

What I describe is they kind of problem you would encounter in the U.S.A. if this was already available here. Many people cant even afford health insurance. They have to wait until their illness is life threatening to get treatment in the emergency room. Unfortunately many people die here because insurance companies deny a life saving treatment or surgery. They would certainly do everything they could to avoid paying for a new organ. I can see in Belgium it would be a different story.

[8tropos]

@3004z

Thats why you Americans need to support Obama !

[TORRANOWENS]

@8tropos yeahhhh about that ^^^

the time process and materials used for this is just too expensive for that.

[gr8print]

@8tropos , If you like him so much where you're at, why don't you take him? Most of us are afraid he'll turn the United States into what Europe has become.

[mtoussieh]

@gr8print The USA would do very well turning into what Europe has become. They are both broke, loosing power quickly, threatened by extremism and terrorism but at least Europe is more free, there is less regulation on a lot of things, less people in jail, and I've been to both and Europe is 100 times more beautiful, more cultured, I'd say more advanced than the USA...

[CarboneCZ]

@3004z

It's like with every technology. First it's crappy and expensive then it gets better and cheaper. Look around your house, 50 years ago you'd be saying the same thing about most of the stuff you own. Also giving a new heart to 10 rich people a year for $100.000 is not as appealing as giving it to 10.000 people for $1.000. And I'm pretty sure they even enjoy it more, money aside.

[CarboneCZ]

@3004z

And the rich people are actually those who finance expensive researches by buying their crappy and expensive products. This ultimately leads to cheap and well functioning products.

[nightstash1]

@3004z It's like this dude. When the first HD television came out they were up to 10 grand but now you can get them for around 2 grand at Walmart. It's the same thing in this case. You are right for about the first 10 to 15 years about us poor people.

[3004z]

@nightstash1 I guess with laser eye surgery that has been the case. It has gotten cheaper. That's what you'd hope. On the other hand look at liver transplants. The first one was done in the 60's. Now they're done routinely yet they still run around $150,000 to $250,000 each. That considering that the liver was donated.

[L2pMetalfan]

@3004z why not just get it for 30k from the poor?

[kennyh858]

@3004z There is no question. Your options are to get rich and stop being one of the "little people", or let nature take its course.

[Zardozthedestroyer]

 You Wouldn't Download a Kidney....

[DesertHamster]

@Zardozthedestroyer that made me litteraly lol

[ratarob]

this guy is amazing, just amazing !!!!!  in deed he deserve a novel prize.

[WorldVideophone]

Thank you, science. Thank you, stem cell research. Fucky you, church. Of any kind.

[xzaz2]

@WorldVideophone Science? Its nature that makes science posible...

[marvin117]

@xzaz2 derp, when you think about it, everything's connected to nature, so what you're saying is just BS.

[Nerusai]

@xzaz2

Perhaps you should define your idea of 'nature' more closely...

Science is a tool to build knowledge on the universe, which is natural. Clearly this universe allowed us to exist, so saying nature makes science possible sounds kind of retarded and 'New-Agey'.

[xzaz2]

@Nerusai Nature = Gods creation :)

[Nerusai]

@xzaz2

What's a god? Noone ever told me when I grew up, and I've asked people before but they never responded. Perhaps you will Oo What's this secret everyone seems to be keeping from me? I'm not that young anymore...

[xzaz2]

@Nerusai I won't have to tell you, everything we believe is written down. Read the Bible and you will understand.

[Nerusai]

@xzaz2

I can't afford to buy a book... Can't you just summarize it for me.

[xzaz2]

@Nerusai Guess what, its free! biblegateway [] doc

[Nerusai]

@xzaz2

Are you trying to pull my finger? I went to your website and it made no sense at all...

[xzaz2]

@Nerusai Nope, their are multiple websites that offer free reading of the Bible...

[Nerusai]

@xzaz2

Yes, it reads like a very bad fairy tale... I'm only 16, but I know when someone is trying to make fun of me...

[Hoodie89NL]

Mark my words: in 500 years we can order a mini copy of ourselves with only our DNA if we don't want a child with only half of it.

[dusp2k]

This isn't something for mass-production I guess.

[wouter1411]

uber cool

[Niekfollings]

Nice big round tits for all woman. A large porn-star penis for all men. Good times are coming.

[djjmria]

i need a new right arm, do they also make those?

[negmateg]

WOW.

[jamezrojer]

Basically its a 3 Axis Coordinate Scanning Pick and Place system. One need a very high resolution XYZ axis servo/Stepper Table (compatible with tissue size resolution) and a tissue dropper pipit and a CAD CAM software interface with little vacuumed pick and place picker to produce a very basic structure. For more sophisticated systems like this video, a pattern monitoring video system based on image processing, temperature, humidity and some other layering medium may required.

[sh0gun98]

@jamezrojer Not to mention a clean room environment.

[n4979338]

This makes me feel better, human life is too easily damaged or destroyed today. Wouldnt nerve cells in the brain b replaceable too? mayb even changed

[aradioactivedonut]

no they would still need stem cells for the brain.

[n4979338]

But don't we expect that sooner or later the synthesis of stem cells for all tissue will be routine?

[aradioactivedonut]

they figured out how to make cancer free stem cells last year, so it will be a long time till it catches up with the rest of regenerative medicine.

[MadPutz]

Finally, cannibals can be cannibals without hurting anyone. Just grow a massive stock of muscle cells :P.

But seriously, a lot of chicken, pork, beef, and fish meat will be produced in this fashion in the efficient future - animal rights activists will eat meat when that comes.

[Shadowmourne07]

Im a bio major in undergrad here in Columbia. God I cant wait to get my hands on this stuff in med school :)

We may be close to making humans immortal.

[zacky89]

@Shadowmourne07

but we scientists also now

that the number 1 thing that we can rule out are the brain. thats simply impossible

[sh0gun98]

@Shadowmourne07 Maybe, but what do you do when the brain dies?

[limogerry]

This'll be for the ultra-rich only into the forseeable future.

[ChimeraProd]

Would Bio-engineering be the degree to get to help contribute to this type of technology?

[SergioTheG]

Is this from nextworld?

[spadata]

Oct 2008:

Makoto Nakamura from the Toyama University, Japan his machine can generate human organs. claims that the technology is very simple and it works just like a conventional inkjet printer, but instead of jetting out ink droplets, the machine will jet out hundreds, maybe thousands of cells per second.

devicedaily . com

[ForensicFreak55]

has anyone here seen the fifth element?? ;)

[tbenefi33]

That's what I was thinking when they made the perfect one in the glass chamber.

[booste30]

This guy's going to win the Nobel Prize.

[armenac92]

he is not the first one :) this was first made by a german dude in 2005

[Cayle001]

I know that Forgacs was talking about this kind of thing to anyone who would listen, already back in the 90's; when he jumped into biological physics using his statistical mechanics background. The theoretical underpinnings were already there. The wetwork needed to catch up.

[selftaughtninja]

@booste30 no he isnt . Because there are too many mind blowing technologies coming out. But he will indeed get acknowledged.

[mtoussieh]

@booste30 There is no such thing as a Nobel Prize on the field of medicine...

[Jo0ngle]

Hm ;) the "Replicator" is coming closer...

We'll soon be able to manufacture synthetic meats too...

[salmahacek]

he should try replicating simple tissue first like the cornea or heart valves.

[amperro]

Maybe memories can be backed up.

[Blackjack1875o]

Hehe, and china is farming organs at camps from dissenters... idiotic when this technology is around the corner...

Theres growing commercial companies making video game systems that read the magnetic resonances of the brain,

watch?v=40L3SGmcPDQ

That just leaves the question of when this tech is standard and they can fully decode the wavepatterns, would you want the implants that could do so, or not based on moral grounds?

It's a good idea that comes with scary connotations.

[Strawbz7209]

This is one of the most amazing things ive ever seen.

[swdfsh123]

heh, i work at his lab

[shadowace421]

I realy hope this guy perfect and succeds with this

[donschnitzius]

IMMORTALITY SHALL BE MINE!!!

[shadowace421]

not realy, your brain wil still age and if you gain a new brain, you wont have any of your previous memory, like a blank disk

[ControlledByFire]

That's not really true. If the printer was advanced enough to place each individual cell specifically then memory and development in the brain would stay relatively the same.

[shadowace421]

woa wait, so memory is determined by the positions and place in wich every single cell is located?

[mayavi22]

@shadowace421 Are you sure we can't just store all your memories(maybe only the really important ones) and transfer them into the new brain? It's highly possible that it can be done in the future. Have you read the novel "Abduction" by Robin Cook?

[sh0gun98]

@donschnitzius Doubtful..