Additive manufacturing, or its more commonly-referred to description as 3D printing, has been in the news a lot over the last few weeks, with stories about varied uses such as printing musical instruments, plastic magazines for rifles, and moonbases for European space missions. Now, a joint venture between academics at Edinburgh’s Heriot-Watt University and private […]
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I Don’t Need To Quit Smoking, I’ll Pick Up New Lungs On The Way Home
Apparently, while I wasn’t paying attention, the world got real Syfy on me. I recently found out that we’ve successfully grown and implanted a trachea grown from stem cells. Somehow, I missed the entire evolution of this process, but it’s pretty damn amazing, nonetheless. I know we’ve been trying to grow bits and pieces of […]