Inkjet Printers Offer Biology Breakthrough

KingFishKingFish
edited August 2004 in Science & Tech
If you think injecting ink into a printer cartridge might damage your printer, try filling it with animal cells.
That's what they're doing at Clemson University in Clemson, South Carolina, these days. In the name of science, researchers have developed a way to print sheets of solid animal tissue by filling Hewlett-Packard and Canon inkjet cartridges with animal cells, or "bio-ink." Using basic design software, often AutoCAD, scientists like Thomas Boland, an assistant professor of bioengineering, are designing and generating tissue that could someday save heart patients who need new cardiac tissue.
Source: PC World

Comments

  • GHoosdumGHoosdum Icrontian
    edited August 2004
    Cool! I didn't even know inkjets were useful anymore these days...
  • CyrixInsteadCyrixInstead Stoke-on-Trent, England Icrontian
    edited August 2004
    I can't get the link to work...

    ~Cyrix
  • Geeky1Geeky1 University of the Pacific (Stockton, CA, USA)
    edited August 2004
    GHoosdum wrote:
    Cool! I didn't even know inkjets were useful anymore these days...

    What else would you use?
  • GHoosdumGHoosdum Icrontian
    edited August 2004
    Geeky1 wrote:
    What else would you use?

    Laser.
  • CycloniteCyclonite Tampa, Florida Icrontian
    edited August 2004
    Some people need color prints. I, personally, can't afford a color laser printer. :)
  • Geeky1Geeky1 University of the Pacific (Stockton, CA, USA)
    edited August 2004
    And what about color? Color laser printers are expensive, and their image quality is far worse than a good inkjet.
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