I have a 3d printer at home... that's gonna be a huge pill to swallow!
Just chug a pint of resin to chase it down.
Researchers discover way to 3D print directly inside the body without surgery
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#12Clever, they'd need to get it right first time though. If it throws a flub you'd need surgery to get it out.
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#13those cavitation bubbles should be able to destroy cancer cells too. I.e. probably can be used instead of radiation and proton "knives".
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#14I have a 3d printer at home... that's gonna be a huge pill to swallow!
Well, then good news! It's a suppository!
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#15Earlier quoted context omitted.
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.
It literally says what materials they've used it with successfully and mentions what materials they're still aiming to be able to use.
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#16I had to go to the dentist’s yesterday and while looking at some pics I thought the idea of literally screwing in an implant tooth in your gum to be pretty damn crude, primitive even. It would be cool if we could inject some artificial 3D printing thingies in the gum that feed on nutrients from your body and slowly create a new tooth as programmed beforehand.
Such robotic thingies could also be used to build new bones or slowly change the structure of existing bones. That would be pretty damn amazing.
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#18Earlier quoted context omitted.
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.
It literally says what materials they've used it with successfully and mentions what materials they're still aiming to be able to use.
The single sentence about "polymer-metal composites" and "metal" raises more questions than it answers. To me, anyway.
I'm sure that "these scientists" are on the case, but the article not so much.
Re: Researchers discover way to 3D print directly inside the body without surgery
#19I had to go to the dentist’s yesterday and while looking at some pics I thought the idea of literally screwing in an implant tooth in your gum to be pretty damn crude, primitive even. It would be cool if we could inject some artificial 3D printing thingies in the gum that feed on nutrients from your body and slowly create a new tooth as programmed beforehand. Such robotic thingies could also be used to build new bone…
That roughly follows some proposed applications of stem cell therapy. Why invent a nanomachine swarm when we are all nanomachine swarms?
Re: Researchers discover way to 3D print directly inside the body without surgery
#20I had to go to the dentist’s yesterday and while looking at some pics I thought the idea of literally screwing in an implant tooth in your gum to be pretty damn crude, primitive even. It would be cool if we could inject some artificial 3D printing thingies in the gum that feed on nutrients from your body and slowly create a new tooth as programmed beforehand. Such robotic thingies could also be used to build new bone…
I think something similar every time I look at the massive scar on my ankle where I had a steel plate installed after an injury. This is going to seem tremendously primitive sometime soon.