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Exciting! I wonder, how many body parts will become replaceable? Bones? Skin? Kidney?


We've been growing skin (from somatic skin cells) in dishes for years. Organovo's 3-D printed kidneys (made from somatic kidney cells) are from last April, although there had been earlier attempts, and 3-D printed kidneys have been implanted into living patients now. 3-D printed bones are from 2010, because it's adequate to print a mineral "skeleton" that living cells then colonize after implantation.


Could you link to any good sources on the kidneys? I might need one one of these days...


I'll go down as saying the best candidates are perhaps teeth and kidneys.




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