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3 new projects pave the way for growing human organs from scratch
There are more than seven billion people in the world, and life expectancy keeps growing thanks to the unbelievable advancements in modern medicine. However, the human body can’t outlive its expiration date, and organs often fail and require viable replacements. But because there never seem to be enough donors around, doctors are looking at various ways to create artificial organs that are either built out of human flesh or mechanical parts, and that could...
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I suspect only the wealthy will get these goodies.
Actually the cost of 3D printing has gone down really fast. It's not unreasonable to expect that this would be affordable shortly after the rich have access to it.