Organ Printing
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This guy's going to win the Nobel Prize.
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So why isn't this already in use?
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you have some great stuff here
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very interesting video thanks
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Can you make clones as well? i bet you allready do..
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too good to be true. This can extend the life expectancy of people now a days.
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@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...
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@booste30 There is no such thing as a Nobel Prize on the field of medicine...
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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?
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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.
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@booste30 no he isnt . Because there are too many mind blowing technologies coming out. But he will indeed get acknowledged.
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.
3004z 1 year ago
@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.
8tropos 1 year ago 8
@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.
3004z 1 year ago
@3004z
Thats why you Americans need to support Obama !
8tropos 1 year ago 6