Office Depot Sale on Organs
Posted on May 16th, 2006 by Monkey King
Bio-Paper for Printing Organs Thursday, November 10th, 2005 An emerging branch of medicine called “organ printing” takes a patient’s own healthy cells and uses a printer, cell-based “bio-ink” and “bio-paper” to create tissue to repair a damaged organ. A new hydrogel or “bio-paper”,developed by the University of Utah College of Pharmacy, enables printing of organs by layering thin sheets embedded with cells. The cells and liquid hydrogel are put in the printer cartridge and then dropped into three-dimensional, 1-microliter dots that form layers as the hydrogel hardens. The cells form tissue that can be implanted into a damaged organ. Glenn D. Prestwich believes testing will begin on humans in the next year as research pushes to repair damaged organs in real-time.
I’m fascinated by what we are accomplishing with biotechnology, not to mention the research being done with biotech and computer tech. Is the evolution of man going to be increasing our measly 10% brain usage? Or just bypassing that and throwing chips into our heads?
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