What's the bioink used for? The blurb there doesn't really indicate the purpose or scale of the process. By 3D Bio-constructions do you mean rebuilding a lost limb, or making bonsai trees or apartment buildings out of living human cells? #avssymposium
@Anekanta - Space Hippy!:
The title of each paragraph links directly to the abstract, so that provides a bit more data. It's also mentioned in the link below, but not in much detail [www2.avs.org]#avssymposium
@Anekanta - Space Hippy!: That's insane! If I read that abstract right, bioink is basically about a way of "printing" engineered tissue in layers for replacement, like a rapid prototyping machine... so if say a burn victim lost all the skin & muscle on his leg, you could just print him up some new skin & muscle and graft it on, vasculature and all.
Of course, I know almost nothing about biology, so I could be making up everything I just said. Still, if that's what it does, it's pretty cool.
Now if you'll excuse me, I'm going to go print myself a steak...
(edit: I mean, if it can do human, surely it can do beef, too, right?)
The 'nanoboxes' are just screaming to be weaponised.
Inert nanoparticles that can be dispersed throughout the environment, with no ill effect.
But paint the selected 'target' with a laser, and they release precisely what you want, only where you want it.
Instant unconciousness, blindness, psychosis, suggestibility, death etc. etc. to whoever you want, whenever you want.
Until they can make me a robotic hand that I can cover with a black leather glove,this is all just fluff.
/spits out the pencil used for typing. #nanotech
It's called 'off-label uses' and 'failure to report adverse effects', and they're gonna have a really bad run-in with some people who've had their senses of humor surgically removed on hiring. #science
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I'm so disappointed. #avssymposium
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Robert Full on animal movement
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Learning from the gecko's tail
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Robert Full on engineering and evolution
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Edit: as you can see, artificial gecko-like feet aren't coming soon; they're already here.
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What's the bioink used for? The blurb there doesn't really indicate the purpose or scale of the process. By 3D Bio-constructions do you mean rebuilding a lost limb, or making bonsai trees or apartment buildings out of living human cells? #avssymposium
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The title of each paragraph links directly to the abstract, so that provides a bit more data. It's also mentioned in the link below, but not in much detail
[www2.avs.org] #avssymposium
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Of course, I know almost nothing about biology, so I could be making up everything I just said. Still, if that's what it does, it's pretty cool.
Now if you'll excuse me, I'm going to go print myself a steak...
(edit: I mean, if it can do human, surely it can do beef, too, right?)
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Inert nanoparticles that can be dispersed throughout the environment, with no ill effect.
But paint the selected 'target' with a laser, and they release precisely what you want, only where you want it.
Instant unconciousness, blindness, psychosis, suggestibility, death etc. etc. to whoever you want, whenever you want.
Nice. #nanotech
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Almost there.....
[www.youtube.com] #nanotech
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/spits out the pencil used for typing. #nanotech
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Seconded. #nanotech
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I am actually doing consulting work for an independent biomedical device maker right now. It is interesting stuff.
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