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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.

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I’ve added a public Google Notebook to the links on the right. Always the technophile, I’ve jumped onto this new service from Google. I may be easily over-hyping its potential, however, what the future holds for it may prove me right. Essentially, its much like del.icio.us, where you can catalog your travels on the Internet, except, instead of just bookmarks, you can clip images, text, etc. Then you can either keep it private or public. It has a very blog-like feel. I’m going to continue testing it, feel free to visit the public research notebook.  What I’m really looking forward to is the integration to other google services.

At the same time…I’m not sure if I want all of this information in the hands of such a beast? Google has said that they want to “organize the worlds information” no real specification on whether that’s private or public information. I won’t be putting my private information up anytime soon anyways, so ladies, I’m afraid you’ll have to keep imagining the majesty that is the Monkey King. (heh..ahh…even I laughed a little there)

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