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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.

I want to see this show...

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

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post #14

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Well, then good news! It's a suppository!

That's gonna be a huge pain in the ass to get it inside

Maybe it could assemble itself inside you. "It's 3D-printers all the way down..."

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.

"Flesh Penetrating Sound Waves" sounds like a band in a David Cronenberg film.

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

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I 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?

Some people really dislike when Grog try to play God, either for misguided religious reasons or somewhat reasonable comprehension of the sheer scale of human ignorance in regards to biological systems.

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

#26
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.

Don't forget that it's health care in the US, so it'll be the same piece of leather everyone else has used, but wiped down with a Clorox wipe.

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

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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.

My God, based on what I know, drinking UV sensitive resin would have to be one of the worst ways to die.

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

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post #5

Earlier quoted context omitted.

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.

Don't forget that it's health care in the US, so it'll be the same piece of leather everyone else has used, but wiped down with a Clorox wipe.

Like that hamburger seller from Demolition Man: "Do you see any cows down here?"

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

#30
post #13

those cavitation bubbles should be able to destroy cancer cells too. I.e. probably can be used instead of radiation and proton "knives".

If it's just heat and destruction you need, we have gold nano particles that can absorb infared radiation and locally cook tumors.
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