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Remember the scenes from the movie The 5th Element, where the bad guys blow stuff up and the scientists are able to regenerate cells with the futuristic intergalactic regenerator, thus creating The Supreme Being a.k.a. Lilu Dallas Multipass a.k.a. Mila Jovovich? (hawt)
Well that just may be possible-or something similar to it-minus the whole recreation of a living, breathing hot chick that speaks kind of funny. Hod Lipson and his colleagues over at Cornell University have been using the 3D printing concept and applying it to 'bioprinting'.
^Fab@Home's Model 2 printer. The syringe tools can be used to print with silicone, cement, cake frosting, and even cheese.
(Credit: Fab@Home & Cnet)
Can you hear me now? Maybe.
Lipson and his team discussed the idea of bioprinting (creating biological tissue such as skin, bone, and cartilage) at an American Association for the Advancement of Science meeting in Washington D.C. As a demonstration, they printed an ear made up of silicon gel.
Fab@Home is a project Lipson's been involved since 2006 where they printed out ears using inorganic material with a 3D printer. As amazing as this concept is, this kind of futuristic technology won't go mainstream for another 20 years. Just imagine the things they could do to save lives by printing out organs instead of having to wait for donors? For amputees or deformities, the possibilities of implanting regenerated body parts from the patient's very own cells could be miraculous.
Organovo is a company that is already developing blood vessels essential to the growth of artificial organs. In an article, Vladimir Mironov from the Medical University of South Carolina stated the following: "The next big thing and next logical step is the development of robotic methods of functional human tissue and organ bioassembly."
With the concept of bioprinting and perhaps it being a medical breakthrough, the possibilities of human cell/body part regeneration are endless.
Keep up the good work guys. Just make sure you don't end up with some sort of mutant monster. We've all seen the SyFy movies! Yikes.
even to make figures 
