Thursday, October 9, 2014

3d Printing (Body Parts)

3d Printing

Doctors have found a new way to recreate parts you have lost. They use cells to create a body part like an ear. Scientists attack it to the body and the skin grows around it. This technology revolutionizes the way we look at prosthetics.
            I believe this technology is a great way to help soldiers when they are wounded. If someone gets shot or takes a blow you can easily print out another. I’m not very sure that they can do full legs and other parts, but I believe in a few years they will be able to almost create a whole face. Someone could accidently cut their fingers off and doctors just take a few hours to get another one back.
            It is a very complicated machine but very sizable it takes whatever the kind of cells the part is and recreate a fake part from its cells. If they create a whole body then it would lead in to humans that aren’t really humans but yet they are like robots.                      
            This technology is a lot better than prosthetics. Instead of a heavy metal around your leg you have a skin like material. It looks and feels like you never lost an ear at all. I would love to try this out because image the world or possibilities this creates. We might not need robots maybe just “people”.
            Scientists would be able to create the important parts like the heart, lungs, brain, and other things to make people function better. For the heart they could use an artificial heart that they already know how to make. They could easily find brains and lungs would probably be the easiest part. They need to find a place to start from like a few parts of a dead body to make it come to life.          
Over all I believe that further down the road this will be key to helping more people survive through war, accidents, and other things that hurt people.




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