BIOPRINTING!
Bioprinting Body Parts May Lead To Crazy Cosmetic Requests Recently, a 20-year-old young woman underwent the first ear transplant. She had been born with a condition where her ears didn't develop. Her own cells were used in a printer — kind of a dot printer — and layer by layer, they built up a living artificial ear that could accept circulation from her own body. Bioprinting could move into the production of skin, or perhaps blood vessels. It's not yet quite to the point where we could see somebody print out a functioning heart. That's too complicated in terms of getting everything right so that it would work — although someday, but not soon. Same thing with a functional liver. There is a weirder future coming. A person could say, "I'm a big fan of Mr Spock on Star Trek." For those who don't know, Spock had very pointy, big ears. A bioprinter that can make a human-like ear can make all kinds of ears. Some people would say, "Oh, that would be cool. I have tattoos, I have piercings. Now, I'd like to see some of this technology used to alter my body appearance, to alter my presentation to others, to make me part of a group, a club, a gang, an association, or whatever it is." Are there limits we should impose? What are the implications we're not thinking about here? By: https://www.instagram.com/p/CgRQH4oMlGx/?igshid=YmMyMTA2M2Y=