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« on: April 20, 2011, 03:54:41 PM »
I know this will be awhile before it is readily. But just imagine not having to wait years for an organ, but rather hours.  If you need a kidney, they just program the printer and make it for you right there and then.  Awesome !

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=80DhBLEhdzk
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« Reply #1 on: April 20, 2011, 03:56:13 PM »
This is also interesting to watch. Check it out.  They show you an actual "printed" kidney.

http://www.hulu.com/watch/223159/tedtalks-anthony-atala-printing-a-human-kidney
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« Reply #2 on: June 07, 2011, 01:20:42 PM »
That is awesome. I want one right now!
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« Reply #3 on: August 24, 2012, 01:07:10 PM »
My printer won't work!   :Kit n Stik;
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« Reply #4 on: August 24, 2012, 01:38:49 PM »
Really cool.  I wonder how much one will cost??  $$$$
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« Reply #5 on: August 24, 2012, 02:28:13 PM »
They've actually already "printed" a bladder and transplanted it into a teenager.  Of course, a kidney is MUCH more complicated, but the technology is there and it DOES work.  I'm really hopeful about so many new technologies because dialysis and transplantation as we know it are pretty close to primitive technologies these days.  Dialysis is just so expensive, so it seems to me that if we could direct more funding to projects like this one, we'd save a lot of money in the long run.  Of course, it's easy for me to say but much harder to actually DO!
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« Reply #6 on: August 24, 2012, 02:31:40 PM »
Yes, in the second link above we meet the teenaged boy who is now in college.  And they do show a printed pink kidney that the docto holds in his hand.

Amazing.  Take time to watch the links above.
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« Reply #7 on: September 13, 2013, 07:46:10 AM »
More printed kidneys!  Research was done in China

http://gizmodo.com/scientists-can-now-3d-print-transplantable-living-kidn-1120783047
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« Reply #8 on: September 13, 2013, 08:21:44 AM »
Just FYI, the one printed at the TED talk was made out of actual tissue, but it didn't have any internal structure.  It was just a "blob", but it's a huge step forward.  The internal structure is what they're working on now.
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« Reply #9 on: September 13, 2013, 09:03:09 AM »
The one from China claims to be a working kidney ie it filters and can excrete.
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