Ever dreamed about a slightly (or even completely) different body?  Do you want a new liver or do you need to substitute some inter-vertebral disks? Why don’t you start with – let’s say an ear. Can you imagine a plastic surgeon, using a Fluid Forms Online-Design-Tool redefining the contours of your ear, getting rapid prototyped afterwards with a 3D-tissue-printer. Or even order not just the clothes, but the body parts on myvirtualmodel. You think you can get the body of your dreams with genetic manipulation too? How about transferring the information about your (second or third) physical body to another galaxy to print it out over there? I heard rumours saying that beaming can be quite dangerous.

Yeah, I know – that’s all Sci-Fi and scary too (at the moment). Anyway, 3D-tissue printing is a fascinating technology, with many possible applications within medicine, not just plastic surgery. However, it will definitely take a few more decades and at least $1billion until we’ll get some functioning human organs.

via rapidtoday

see also envisionTEC

3D tissue printing of an human ear

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