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Artificial hearts grown....using an inkjet printer

PostPosted:Tue May 03, 2011 6:26 pm
by Zeus
I honestly couldn't make this up if I tried, but it's true and sounds pretty neat. They "basically" replace the ink with cells, "print" the organ, and it starts to pump on its own after a few hours (yes, Kup, I know it's more complicated than that; I'm giving an extremely brief, ADHD-friendly summary)

http://www.cbc.ca/news/offbeat/story/20 ... ering.html

It's almost sci-fi stuff. I'm interested to see if this leads to anything