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Interesting New Scientist story about "organ printing", a method for mechanically arranging individual cells into arbitrary shapes and encouraging them to work together.

But I love the lead:
Sitting in a culture dish, a layer of chicken heart cells beats in synchrony. But this muscle layer was not sliced from an intact heart, nor even grown laboriously in the lab. Instead, it was "printed", using a technology that could be the future of tissue engineering.

OH NOES I just hope they don't let any silly women near the apparatus.

Date: 2006-04-14 01:24 pm (UTC)
From: [identity profile] karlvonl.livejournal.com
Whoa, this is just like when they rebuilt Leeloo in The Fifth Element.

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