Surgical 3D printing BioPen writes in bone, nerve and muscle

DVICE ^ | 02/07/2014 | Colin Druce-McFadden

[skeeter]

*rimshot*

[ifinnegan]

Adult stem cells are derived from all sorts of different places.

The fat derived cells are not necessarily multi potent

Bone marrow derived adult stem cells are most characterized.

Often claims to fat cell derived stem cells are quite premature and are based upon some marker gene expression changes that don’t necessarily correlate with a true differentiation.

[Dead Corpse]

Ok... that made my brain tingle with excitement.

Professor Solomon Selzer, eat your heart out you manky git...

[Slyfox]

[Seraphicaviary]

Cue the reconstitution scene from The 5th Element.

Can they make clones with that? The world could use a few more Milla Jovovichs.

[listenhillary]

Now if they can keep the surgical site infection free. Very few people that I know have had surgeries in the last eight years without further complications from infection.

[bgill]

A million years from now archaeologists will wonder why “Elroy was here” was carved into bones.

[bgill]

My BIL is battling all sorts of infections from a surgery 6 months ago. They go in and drain it - more infections. The cut out tissue - more infections. They give antibiotics - it went super strain. Now his kidneys are failing. It’s been down, down, down hill since.

[uncommonsense]

"Just in time - I’m down to my last few microns of cartilage in both shoulders."

Same here, but I need an L5 disk first, then ACL in my right knee, then shoulder cartilage - unless I can get the nerves regenerated in my neck...

Glad this is being done in Australia where they don't have the ObamaCare device tax to kill innovation.

[null and void]

And this, ladies and gentlemen, is why penmanship is important for a doctor...