This is an image of a 3D printed ear
Tuesday, February 16, 2016
Medical advancements
Here lies post number 2 of my blog this blog post will touch on a medical invention and will give info and help the reader learn about one of the most major and recent discoveries doctors have found out how to create and make 3D printed body parts and tissues. This quote from [Link] is very informative on what we really have created with these printers "3D printing isn't just for toys and models -- doctors at the Wake Forest Institute for Regenerative Medicine announced yesterday that they've managed to 3D print "living" tissue and organs that functioned properly when implanted in animals". I find that these kind of technological and medical leaps is what keeps us striving to continue research and keeps some unfortunate people in hope. In the article it mentions that we have already began animal trials and will most likely start human trials soon. In my opinion I think that if we are capable of printing organs and tissues it can go positively and negatively. The positives is that we will be able to help so many people that we weren't able to help before and we could offer all sorts of new types of health care. The negatives is that they can be taken advantage of in multiples ways and by that I mean they can be sold for a lot more to make profit also they can have unpredictable effects on the body. All in all I think that this invention will help so many lives in so many ways and it is the next step forward to an easier way of living, to conclude my thoughts I find this medical leap is gonna really help and gonna open a lot of doors for other doctors to do research and continue making our lives easier.
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Hey Brian! I am rather concerned about the use of 3D printing in medicine... could that 3D-printed ear, perhaps, easily break under minor trauma? It seems really skeptical to me... what did they use to make that ear, silicone? And why does it have to, presumably, be preserved in that pink liquid? Anyway, great blog post!
ReplyDeleteHi Camelia"It uses "biodegradable, plastic-like material"" that is a quote from the article and they have yet to begin human trials but so far on their animal trials all has done pretty well and act like a normal tissues or organ, that pink liquid is just a preserving liquid to keep it alive and to be able to print it.
DeleteHi Brian! I think your post was very well written and I will defiantly be coming back for further post! I like learning about new things and your post is helping me learn about something I would have never really looked into so thank you! Good luck on the rest of your blog.
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