Hey, I saw this and thought it said robo-hound — y’all know how much I like dogs. well, if you didn’t you do now. Anyway. discovered it’s a hand and this technology is fascinating. Students at the University of Vermont are making 3D turtles for an exhibit to encourage species preservation. We expect to see more about that project here.
Meanwhile: here is the article http://news.yahoo.com/5-old-boy-gets-robohand-200745258–abc-news-tech.html
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It’s possible to 3D-print human stem cells. We know that 3D printers can spit out food and guns, and now there’s… human flesh! This isn’t a 21st century Frankenstein story just yet, but a team of UK scientists has successfully printed human stem cells by feeding bio-inks into a “valve-based cell printer.” As much as 95 percent of the cells survived more than three days. Many appeared to be growing into cells found in human skin, tissue, or organ material. These findings are in very nascent stages, but the hope here is to be able to some day print the kinds of organs so many people currently wait so long to receive from donors. The scientists float the hypothetical possibility of “direct in-vivo cell printing for tissue regeneration” in their paper. [VentureBeat]
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