3-d printing of tissue directly into the human body

[scruffy]

Scientists Can Now 3D Print Tissues Directly Inside the Body—No Surgery Needed

A new bioprinter uses ultrasound to non-invasively 3D print tissues, biosensors, and medication depots deep in the body.

singularityhub.com

This month, a team from the California Institute of Technology unveiled a system to 3D print tissues inside the body—no surgery needed. Dubbed deep tissue in vivo sound printing (DISP), the system uses an injectable bioink that’s liquid at body temperature but solidifies into structures when blasted with ultrasound. A monitoring molecule, also sensitive to ultrasound, tracks tissue printing in real time. Excess bioink is safely broken down by the body

 

[Care4all]

This is why funding universities for research is important and should not be cut in funds!

 

[shockedcanadian]

Scientists Can Now 3D Print Tissues Directly Inside the Body—No Surgery Needed

A new bioprinter uses ultrasound to non-invasively 3D print tissues, biosensors, and medication depots deep in the body.

singularityhub.com

This month, a team from the California Institute of Technology unveiled a system to 3D print tissues inside the body—no surgery needed. Dubbed deep tissue in vivo sound printing (DISP), the system uses an injectable bioink that’s liquid at body temperature but solidifies into structures when blasted with ultrasound. A monitoring molecule, also sensitive to ultrasound, tracks tissue printing in real time. Excess bioink is safely broken down by the body

This sounds as if it could real groundbreaking consequences for human health going forward. Some countries are moving forward with technology while other countries...well...

 

[Cellblock2429]

This is why funding universities for research is important and should not be cut in funds!

/----/ Universities with $60 billion endowments, like Harvard, can afford to pay for their own research and offer free tuition without touching the principal.

 

[Cellblock2429]

Scientists Can Now 3D Print Tissues Directly Inside the Body—No Surgery Needed

A new bioprinter uses ultrasound to non-invasively 3D print tissues, biosensors, and medication depots deep in the body.

singularityhub.com

This month, a team from the California Institute of Technology unveiled a system to 3D print tissues inside the body—no surgery needed. Dubbed deep tissue in vivo sound printing (DISP), the system uses an injectable bioink that’s liquid at body temperature but solidifies into structures when blasted with ultrasound. A monitoring molecule, also sensitive to ultrasound, tracks tissue printing in real time. Excess bioink is safely broken down by the body

/---/ At 73, I could use replacement cochlears and a hip. I hope it doesn't take too long for approval.

 

[Care4all]

/----/ Universities with $60 billion endowments, like Harvard, can afford to pay for their own research and offer free tuition without touching the principal.

They are not doing the research for themselves, they are doing it for us, for mankind. Research and development is expensive, and takes a lot of time and patience...it is NOT a money making for profit project at this early stage with all the bright minded students and professors....other than getting grant money to work on these kind of things.

Our government believes it is in the Nation's best interest to fund these kind of medical advancements, and imo, they are right!

 

[The Irish Ram]

This is why funding universities for research is important and should not be cut in funds!

Then the universities should be responsible for funding their own labs.

 

[Zincwarrior]

 

[Care4all]

Then the universities should be responsible for funding their own labs.

The research is for us, that is why the govt is involved.

 

[scruffy]

The research is for us, that is why the govt is involved.

I think legitimate research is being well funded.

Here's an example. I'm working on a machine learning project to decipher EEG from the motor cortex. It's a form of brain computer interface, it's for patients who've been paralyzed from the waist down due to spinal surgery.

The machine learning part, is exactly like ChatGPT, it uses "transformer" technology to extract the volitional motor signals from the EEG. (All the patient has to do is "want" to move the paralyzed limb, or "imagine" it's being moved.

Well, as you know, training a ChatGPT is hugely expensive. It has to be done in the cloud, with thousands of (virtual) nVidia GPU's. But there are lots and lots of people interested in this stuff, the machine learning community, the medical community, the robotics community including the game designers...

All I had to do is send out an email saying "who wants to fund this" and a couple dozen hands got raised. Like, within days.

It seems to me there's adequate research funding.

 

[Zincwarrior]

I think legitimate research is being well funded.

Your statement us based on nothing. The Boy is at arguably the #1 research university in the US. The feds just cut funding for a whole slew of medical research including advanced cancer research.

 

[scruffy]

The feds just cut funding for a whole slew of medical research including advanced cancer research.

Link?

 

[Cellblock2429]

Your statement us based on nothing. The Boy is at arguably the #1 research university in the US. The feds just cut funding for a whole slew of medical research including advanced cancer research.

/—-/ Well, lookie here. Harvards dips into its $60 billion endowment. It’s about 1% of what they earn on interest in one year.

Harvard joins colleges moving to self-fund some research to offset federal funding cuts

Harvard University is putting up $250 million of its own money to continue campus research amid a federal funding freeze imposed by the Trump administration, but the school’s president warns of sacrifices ahead.

apnews.com

 

[sparky]

This sounds too good to be true!.......~S~