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Researchers discover way to 3D print directly inside the body without surgery

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Re: Researchers discover way to 3D print directly inside the body without surgery

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Hot tech. As a comment on the blog points out, this thing briefly hits 15000k under your skin, 3x hotter than the sun!

The cyberpunk back-alley clinic where you'd have something like this done will give you a piece of leather to bite on at no additional cost.

Re: Researchers discover way to 3D print directly inside the body without surgery

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post #5

Hot tech. As a comment on the blog points out, this thing briefly hits 15000k under your skin, 3x hotter than the sun!

The cyberpunk back-alley clinic where you'd have something like this done will give you a piece of leather to bite on at no additional cost.

While you lay in a tub of ice.

Re: Researchers discover way to 3D print directly inside the body without surgery

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So the material that is solidified by the "Flesh Penetrating Sound Waves" would be what - Body tissue? Injected resin? The excess resin would have to be harmlessly biodegradable.

Why don't these scientists ever think about these obvious questions? If only everything could be run by programmers.

Re: Researchers discover way to 3D print directly inside the body without surgery

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So the material that is solidified by the "Flesh Penetrating Sound Waves" would be what - Body tissue? Injected resin? The excess resin would have to be harmlessly biodegradable.

Why don't these scientists ever think about these obvious questions? If only everything could be run by programmers.

That's an entirely misleading statement, and unnecessarily flippant delivery too.

I would say that the _article_ , which surely was not written by "these scientists", is very light on the important and interesting details. Possibly not aimed at a "programmers" audience.

Re: Researchers discover way to 3D print directly inside the body without surgery

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Wait, 3D printing by sonochemistry? That is incredible. Sonochemistry is like a weird glitch in the universe's physics engine, "look at what this tiny bubble can do".

The actual paper: https://www.nature.com/articles/s41467-022-29395-1

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