Tuesday, January 10, 2012

The future of health care: Bioprinting and organ printing

Well, just when I thought I saw it all ;-)

Apparently it's getting very possible to just print organs to replace dysfunctional ones. The building blocks -well, the cells- of the new organs are just the same as the original ones, so there's no risk of repulsion from the body, and this resolves many ethical questions (and excesses) about organ transplantation.

The idea is certainly appealing, thought the big question is whether this will be accessible and affordable to anyone in the future, or whether this will further exacerbate the divide between the 'have's' and the 'have not's'...

3 comments:

  1. It might be possible in the near future. Though it still needs to be seen if the technology has no harmful effects to the recipient.

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