Anthony Atala discusses growing new organs at TEDMED

At 11 minutes in he shows a desktop printer, printing a 2-chambered heart!!!

Its still experimental and against my policy for this site but the idea of using unnatural organs is amazing and needs to enter the people’s consciousness ASAP.

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  1. konterkariert reblogged this from weliveinthefuture
  2. lookatthepicturesifoundforyou reblogged this from ailive4u and added:
    Being in the health care industry, this gets me so pumped
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  6. ladyguyguy reblogged this from weliveinthefuture and added:
    truly AMAZO. Check out...heart being printed from an inkjet printer. SCIEEENCCE!
  7. snugglybug reblogged this from weliveinthefuture and added:
    holy. shit. (especially...freaking HEART.)
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  10. toddpitts reblogged this from weliveinthefuture and added:
    We Live In The future, finally...tumblog that says exactly what I’ve been telling...
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  12. crashandtumble8 reblogged this from weliveinthefuture and added:
    AMAZING!! Using a computer printer...“print” a heart!!!!!! Holy Crap!
  13. fuckyeahfelix reblogged this from weliveinthefuture and added:
    Wooooow. A heart from
  14. closetomidnight reblogged this from weliveinthefuture and added:
    This IS amazing!
  15. alphalux reblogged this from weliveinthefuture and added:
    Can you imagine how expensive replacement cartridges would be?
  16. aliuribe reblogged this from bloosy and added:
    Yay! We’ll never die now!
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    good things i got out...my 2ish-year Invisible Children Phase was discovering
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    weliveinthefuture: THIS BREAKTHROUGH WILL MOSDEF BRING ABOUT SOCIAL AND MORAL CONCERNS
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