you will never look at your printer the same way again

doctorie · Mar 4, 2011

I really dont understand how this got in under my radar.
But damn fuck WOW..the miracle of science.

One of PopSciâ€™s favorite regenerative medicine specialists, Anthony Atala, printed a real kidney on stage at the 2011 TED conference Thursday, in a technique that could be used to create new organs from a patientâ€™s own tissue rather than relying on donated organs.

â€œItâ€™s like baking a cake,â€ Atala said.

A few years ago, Atala figured out how to produce human tissue with a desktop inkjet printer, using cells as the printer ink. In a TED talk last year, he described printing heart valves and other tissues. This week at TED, he brought one of his patients on stage. When he was 10, Luke Massella was among the first people to receive a printed kidney â€” now heâ€™s a healthy college student.

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The process employs scanners that collect a 3-D image of the organ that needs to be replaced. A small tissue sample, which AFP describes as the size of a postage stamp, seeds the printer, which replicates the tissue layer by layer to build a new organ, all in about six hours. It uses the patientâ€™s own tissue, so it avoids any organ rejection issues.

To illustrate its simplicity, Atala whipped one up onstage and held it in his hand, according to several understandably breathless media reports.

Scanners and printers could conceivably be used to treat wounds. A flatbed scanner could scan a patientâ€™s wound, while a printer adds the right types of tissues to fill it back in. â€œYou can print right on the patient,â€ Atala said, according to a report on the talk at Fast Company.

Atala said about 90 percent of people on organ transplant lists are waiting for kidneys, but donors are few and far between. Meanwhile, patients must undergo painful and complicated dialysis treatment. And mechanical replacements are still a few years away. Atala said regenerative medicine could solve the organ shortage crisis, replacing failing body parts on demand.  
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Im going to get me one and start on this

we wont see this anytime soon..there is no money in cures..only medicene that keeps you alive..and paying.

http://www.iol.co.za/scitech/science/news/computer-print-me-a-kidney-1.1035985

http://www.popsci.com/science/artic...er-prints-replacement-kidney-onstage-ted-2011

http://www.popsci.com/science/artic...er-prints-replacement-kidney-onstage-ted-2011

http://www.popsci.com/science/artic...er-prints-replacement-kidney-onstage-ted-2011

Kazzier · Mar 4, 2011

Wow, o.k don't know what to say about that. Part of me is going...errr, no, you can't print body organs. lol

dash · Mar 4, 2011

It does not compute.

EniGmA1987 · Mar 4, 2011

Your sure this wasnt posted in one of these last years on April 1st?

The Communist · Mar 4, 2011

I want one!

The Cox · Mar 4, 2011

I don't know about all of this, but it would be cool if it was true.

Powerdrunkfiend · Mar 4, 2011

Yeh. . . . nice one.

ViciousDS · Mar 5, 2011

It was a crazy show at the TEDS 2011 round up. There was a printed Human Kidney, a self driven car and a time machine!
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what the hell kind of show are they trying to run here hahaha

Penthisylia · Mar 5, 2011

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cgzNJk90-CY

Sogetsu · Mar 6, 2011

I am error.

Ryld Baenre · Mar 6, 2011

-From one of the links

Correction: An earlier version of this post cited coverage by the Agence France-Presse newswire, among other sources, which incorrectly reported that Massella had received a printed kidney 10 years ago and that Atala printed a functional kidney onstage. In fact, Massella received a re-engineered bladder, and Atala printed a dummy kidney mold to demonstrate how the technique could provide transplantable organs someday.

That's why it doesn't compute. Seems like those french papers are awesome at correctly reporting the news :/

ViciousDS · Mar 6, 2011

Ryld Baenre said: ↑

-From one of the links

Correction: An earlier version of this post cited coverage by the Agence France-Presse newswire, among other sources, which incorrectly reported that Massella had received a printed kidney 10 years ago and that Atala printed a functional kidney onstage. In fact, Massella received a re-engineered bladder, and Atala printed a dummy kidney mold to demonstrate how the technique could provide transplantable organs someday.

That's why it doesn't compute. Seems like those french papers are awesome at correctly reporting the news :/
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i knew there was something going on lol, damn those bastards......its the fricken pass the news around the circle and see how accurate it is when it gets back to the source.

Reinier · Mar 11, 2011

I saw in the new Zeitghist movie that they said they could "print" buildings into existence already if they wanted to, the technology already exist today but I had no idea that they could "print" human organs too, thats just crazy.

Ryld Baenre · Mar 18, 2011

They can't. It's not possible right now afaik. There are a lot of factors to take into account. You can't just print cytosol.... as one example. Cell constituents are a little more complex than anything a printer could spew out.

Terand · Mar 18, 2011

Wow, I can make my own clone, via a printer, I can send that fucker to work

Zarash · Mar 18, 2011

My computer science teacher showed us this, they are making simple organs, like bladders and veins. They have even made a two chambered heart and are working on more complex organs.

Pretty cool stuff.

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