JÂy RÛßeÒ Posted February 5, 2013 Share Posted February 5, 2013 http://news.yahoo.com/3d-printed-human-embryonic-stem-cells-created-first-165551783.html In a new study, researchers from the University of Edinburgh have created a cell printer that spits out living embryonic stem cells. The printer was capable of printing uniform-size droplets of cells gently enough to keep the cells alive and maintain their ability to develop into different cell types. The new printing method could be used to make 3D human tissues for testing new drugs, grow organs, or ultimately print cells directly inside the body. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Max Fischer Posted February 5, 2013 Share Posted February 5, 2013 That's amazing. Hard to get your head around how they do it. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Captain Hindsight Posted February 6, 2013 Share Posted February 6, 2013 How long until this is made illegal? Ill give it two years Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
BillsWatch Posted February 6, 2013 Share Posted February 6, 2013 Will take longer to make illegal in UK. US will probably make it retroactive illegal. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
ICanSleepWhenI'mDead Posted February 10, 2013 Share Posted February 10, 2013 Will take longer to make illegal in UK. US will probably make it retroactive illegal. How long until this is made illegal? Ill give it two years If your concern is that the 3D printer uses human embryonic stem cells as starting material, there may be a Nobel prize-winning workaround that avoids the use of embryonic material: http://www.cnn.com/2012/10/08/world/europe/sweden-nobel-prize-medicine Now embryonic-like stem cells can be created in the laboratory from adult cells of the same organism, rather than using aborted fetuses or embryos, explained Visar Belegu, a stem cell researcher at the Hugo W. Moser Research Institute, part of the Kennedy Krieger Institute in Baltimore. Gurdon pioneered cloning through cell reproduction in a tadpole in 1962. In 2006, Yamanaka figured out how to reprogram mature cells so that they revert to their primitive state as "induced pluripotent stem cells," or iPS cells, capable of developing into any part of the body, Belegu said. Not my field, but if you can potentially build human organs by 3D printing human embryonic stem cells and putting what you "printed" in the right kind of goo, why couldn't you get to the same result by using iPS cells as an alternative feedstock for the "printer?" Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
BillsWatch Posted February 10, 2013 Share Posted February 10, 2013 If your concern is that the 3D printer uses human embryonic stem cells as starting material, there may be a Nobel prize-winning workaround that avoids the use of embryonic material: No I am concerned about the stupidity of special interest groups and their influence on science in US. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
boyst Posted February 10, 2013 Share Posted February 10, 2013 To PPP in 5...4...3...2... Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Fan in San Diego Posted February 11, 2013 Share Posted February 11, 2013 That sounds like the scene out of the movie "The Fifth Element" when they printed the perfect being from a single cell. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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