stackyFACTSWhy wait for a tragic motorcycle accident when you can just print a new kidney? Instead of plastic, biological printers extrude a specialized bio-ink made of living stem cells, layering them into a scaffold. We are quite literally moving toward a future where replacing a failing organ is treated like swapping an ink cartridge.
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Chuck Hull invented three-dimensional printing all the way back in 1983 by using a process called stereolithography to cure photopolymers with ultraviolet…
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Three-dimensional printing sounds incredibly futuristic until you realize it consists of watching a tiny nozzle slowly squirt melted filament for fourteen…
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Because the human organ donor waiting list is basically a grim lottery, scientists are turning swine into spare parts. By knocking out specific pig genes that…
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