TED: printing organs

[Dr Mordrid]

In a very recent talk at TED Dr. Anthony Atala (of Wake Forest University's Regenerative Medicine Dept.) updates us on their progress in creating bio-engineered organs. These would be made on demand using the persons own cells, so transplant rejection would not be a factor.

Prepare yourselves: I strongly recommend taping your jaws in the up position lest they hit the floor with a major thud.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9RMx31GnNXY

[Elie]

AWESOME!!

This reminds me of the movie...The 5th Element when they reconstructed Leeloo.

COOL!

[Dr Mordrid]

Did you do the same drop-jaw I did when he took a kidney out of that machine? Granted they have a ways to go, and trials after that, but jeezzz....