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Researchers discover way to 3D print directly inside the body without surgery
- ajsnigrutin 4y agoI have a 3d printer at home... that's gonna be a huge pill to swallow!
- jaggs 4y agoTake my angry upvote. :)
- short_sells_poo 4y agoJust chug a pint of resin to chase it down.
- wincy 4y agoMy God, based on what I know, drinking UV sensitive resin would have to be one of the worst ways to die.
- cardiffspaceman 4y ago-emia meaning presence in the blood.
- tsol 4y agoHe drank a pint of UV-sensitive resin, this is how he exploded.
- gliptic 4y agoWell, then good news! It's a suppository!
- ajsnigrutin 4y agoThat's gonna be a huge pain in the ass to get it inside
- euroderf 4y agoMaybe it could assemble itself inside you. "It's 3D-printers all the way down..."
- pvaldes 4y agoSoon in youtube: "DIY stomach reduction at your own home for dummies, ask Phil". In fact starting with stomach reduction sounds like a low hanging fruit with a bigger target, wide safety interval, less nerves sunbathing in the middle of the road and much less prone to legal troubles (as long as the material would support strong acids without leaking anything nasty). Maybe in the future we could print something low-caloric content that would disintegrate slowly in some weeks to help obese people with their diets.
- swader999 4y agoHey honey, about those breast implants...
- desireco42 4y agoThat is actually amazing idea :) just think about it, and it would be no cuts and you can shape implant to desired shape, it is not just a sack but it can have some structure.
- irthomasthomas 4y agoHot tech. As a comment on the blog points out, this thing briefly hits 15000k under your skin, 3x hotter than the sun!
- bitwize 4y agoThe cyberpunk back-alley clinic where you'd have something like this done will give you a piece of leather to bite on at no additional cost.
- karmicthreat 4y agoWhile you lay in a tub of ice.
- johnnymorgan 4y agoI want to see this show...
- dylan604 4y agoDon't forget that it's health care in the US, so it'll be the same piece of leather everyone else has used, but wiped down with a Clorox wipe.
- sp332 4y agoLike that hamburger seller from Demolition Man: "Do you see any cows down here?"
- MikeDelta 4y agoI loved Stallone's reaction to that.
- jjoonathan 4y ago$3000 to rent the leather. $649 for the wipe.
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- SideburnsOfDoom 4y agoSo the material that is solidified by the "Flesh Penetrating Sound Waves" would be what - Body tissue? Injected resin? The excess resin would have to be harmlessly biodegradable.
- kennyadam 4y agoWhy don't these scientists ever think about these obvious questions? If only everything could be run by programmers.
- SideburnsOfDoom 4y agoThat's an entirely misleading statement, and unnecessarily flippant delivery too. I would say that the _article_ , which surely was not written by "these scientists", is very light on the important and interesting details. Possibly not aimed at a "programmers" audience.
- spiralx 4y agoIt literally says what materials they've used it with successfully and mentions what materials they're still aiming to be able to use.
- SideburnsOfDoom 4y agoThe single sentence about "polymer-metal composites" and "metal" raises more questions than it answers. To me, anyway. I'm sure that "these scientists" are on the case, but the article not so much.
- euroderf 4y ago"Flesh Penetrating Sound Waves" sounds like a band in a David Cronenberg film.
- SideburnsOfDoom 4y agoThat's nice, but I'm seeing a distinct lack of substantive commentary on this post. What's up with that?
- arc-in-space 4y agoWait, 3D printing by sonochemistry? That is incredible. Sonochemistry is like a weird glitch in the universe's physics engine, "look at what this tiny bubble can do". The actual paper: https://www.nature.com/articles/s41467-022-29395-1 https://www.nature.com/articles/s41467-022-29395-1
- ajb 4y agoClever, they'd need to get it right first time though. If it throws a flub you'd need surgery to get it out.
- scyzoryk_xyz 4y agoThis is clearly a long looong way from actual use
- moffkalast 4y ago"Ah my apologies it seems like we have a bit of a layer shift, I'll schedule you for intensive care right away..."
- trhway 4y agothose cavitation bubbles should be able to destroy cancer cells too. I.e. probably can be used instead of radiation and proton "knives".
- sp332 4y agoIf it's just heat and destruction you need, we have gold nano particles that can absorb infared radiation and locally cook tumors.
- watmough 4y agoYes, there's been lots of research for many years on this. https://www.google.com/search?channel=fs&client=ubuntu&q=ultrasound+hyperthermia#cobssid=s https://www.google.com/search?channel=fs&client=ubuntu&q=ult... And if you want a real tangible example of cavitation, albeit via microwaves rather than focussed ultrasound, take a look at any plastic food containers that you microwave regularly. You'll likely be able to see food that has been 'jetted' into the plastic.
- extrememacaroni 4y agoI had to go to the dentist’s yesterday and while looking at some pics I thought the idea of literally screwing in an implant tooth in your gum to be pretty damn crude, primitive even. It would be cool if we could inject some artificial 3D printing thingies in the gum that feed on nutrients from your body and slowly create a new tooth as programmed beforehand. Such robotic thingies could also be used to build new bones or slowly change the structure of existing bones. That would be pretty damn amazing.
- IntrepidWorm 4y agoThat roughly follows some proposed applications of stem cell therapy. Why invent a nanomachine swarm when we are all nanomachine swarms?
- hoseja 4y agoSome people really dislike when Grog try to play God, either for misguided religious reasons or somewhat reasonable comprehension of the sheer scale of human ignorance in regards to biological systems.
- hinkley 4y agoIcarus is just one of the oldest tellings of the Law of Unintended Consequences. Can we/should we doesn’t require technology to become a problem, but it sure makes for a stunning light show. A lot of civics comes down to can we/should we as well, and that doesn’t take any technology at all. It’s just a social dystopia instead of a technological one.
- tsol 4y agoWhat religion has a problem with regenerating teeth? It's just a hard problem. We don't even need placenta for stem cells anymore, and we still are a while away from creating a second set of teeth
- doctorhandshake 4y agoI think something similar every time I look at the massive scar on my ankle where I had a steel plate installed after an injury. This is going to seem tremendously primitive sometime soon.
- excalibur 4y agoDoes this work with Adamantium? Asking for a friend.
- moron4hire 4y agoNice try Wolverine. Everyone knows you don't have friends.
- dev_tty01 4y agoWow. Hate to imagine the FDA approval process for this.
- Cerium 4y agoAgreed, it would not be fun at all. You would have to prepare a de novo submission [1]. [1] https://www.fda.gov/medical-devices/premarket-submissions-selecting-and-preparing-correct-submission/de-novo-classification-request https://www.fda.gov/medical-devices/premarket-submissions-se...
- karaterobot 4y agoThe main article image implies they are going to 3D print an ear and nose inside my body. If that's what these scientists are up to, they should be ashamed of themselves. I don't want to hear or smell anything in there.
- fendy3002 4y agoBe grateful that they don't print tongues or taste buds in your ass lol
- eudes_ochoa 4y agoYou'll be disappointed to learn that we, in fact, do have taste buds everywhere inside our bodies, including the gut, lungs and bladder. Not clear whether there are any in the ass per se, but having experienced no.2 after eating very spicy food, I wouldn't be surprised. https://journals.lww.com/co-clinicalnutrition/Fulltext/2014/07000/Functional_roles_of_the_sweet_taste_receptor_in.15.aspx https://journals.lww.com/co-clinicalnutrition/Fulltext/2014/...
- croes 4y agoCan't wait for the kickstarter campaigns.
- RcouF1uZ4gsC 4y ago> By utilizing sound instead, energy is able to be directed to the correct spot, forming a small bubble through a process called cavitation. Temperatures can reach a pressure approximately 1,000 times that of air at sea level and around 27,000 degress Fahrenheit, which is hotter than the 10,000 degrees surface of the sun. I wonder if the more medically relevant use of this technology isn’t 3D printing but rather treating tumors?
- mleonhard 4y agoUltrasound is already used to treat kidney stone disease [0]. [0] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kidney_stone_disease#Lithotripsy https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kidney_stone_disease#Lithotrip...
- xtracto 4y agoThe vast majority of patients using that get some kind of kidney injury... some even kidney damage. Ow... doesn't sound that great.
- alanh 4y agoWhat could go wrong?
- rurban 4y agoSo Cronenberg's latest movie "Crimes of the Future" is not SciFi anymore. This was fast.
- whoomp12342 4y agoI am confused. Isnt 3d printing about additive manufacturing? how do they get the material inside your body before blasting rebecca black's friday at your organ?