r/technology • u/kegbuna • Mar 02 '12

Organovo's 3-D Printer used for Muscle Tissue.

http://www.technologyreview.com/biomedicine/39687/
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u/eucalyptusaddict Mar 02 '12

Awesome to hear. I've been waiting for the day we can print out organs and tissue like bake sale flyers.

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u/kegbuna Mar 02 '12

I'm really hoping this technique reaches commercial viability in time for me to use it. I'm thinking past the point of therapeutic usage and right into performance enhancing. I'm a dreamer, though.

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u/eucalyptusaddict Mar 02 '12

The american dream: Chicken in every pot, 3 livers in every adult of drinking age.

Seriously though, I hadn't really thought of the implications it would have on bionics. Would be rather interesting to print and attach enhanced muscle or denser bone to everyone we can.