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Playinghardball

(11,665 posts) Wed Nov 27, 2013, 08:28 PM Nov 2013

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(WOW) Scientists claim they will be able to 3D print a human heart in a decade...

Cardiovascular scientists have announced they'll be able to 3D print a whole human heart - "the easiest" organ to bioprint - from a patients' own cells within a decade. The ambitious US team is already building custom 3D printers for the job."

Read more: http://bit.ly/I1A2qS via ScienceAlert.

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(WOW) Scientists claim they will be able to 3D print a human heart in a decade... (Original Post) Playinghardball Nov 2013 OP

I'll bet they do it before that warrior1 Nov 2013 #1

WOW is right. nt LWolf Nov 2013 #2

Considering my family history of heard disease get the red out Nov 2013 #3

Wow a plastic heart rustydog Nov 2013 #4

warrior1

(12,325 posts)

1. I'll bet they do it before that

Reply to Playinghardball (Original post)

Wed Nov 27, 2013, 08:31 PM

Nov 2013

LWolf

(46,179 posts)

2. WOW is right. nt

Reply to Playinghardball (Original post)

Wed Nov 27, 2013, 08:35 PM

Nov 2013

get the red out

(13,460 posts)

3. Considering my family history of heard disease

Reply to Playinghardball (Original post)

Wed Nov 27, 2013, 09:46 PM

Nov 2013

That is on a very good schedule for me.

I'll still keep walking and eating decently though, just in case.

rustydog

(9,186 posts)

4. Wow a plastic heart

Reply to Playinghardball (Original post)

Wed Nov 27, 2013, 10:24 PM

Nov 2013

We need them NOW. Implant them in Republicans.
Even a fake heart is better than no heart.

Naw, republicans want the first 3D print penis.

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