clsage Posted December 12, 2013 Report Share Posted December 12, 2013 For potential plotline or background uses: http://www.popsci.com/article/science/pen-3-d-prints-bone-right-patients?src=SOC&dom=fb -Carl- Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Narf the Mouse Posted December 12, 2013 Report Share Posted December 12, 2013 Which article you can read on your wireless communications device, smaller than a paperback book, not much heavier than a pen, which is connected to a world-wide communications network containing a large portion of the sum total of human knowledge, art, religion, culture, philosophy, ethics, history, economical activity, etc., in which you can find nearly any subject you are looking for using massive computerized calculation engines capable of searching the near-endless seas of knowledge to almost always deliver what you want, usually in less time that it would take to type out the query. Including at least one page on which it is possible to pay for (and possibly even receive) your own, personal, jetpack. "You're pulling my leg, right?" - Test subject from 1972. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
bigbywolfe Posted December 13, 2013 Report Share Posted December 13, 2013 Maybe I'm being obtuse Narf, but what does that have to do with the article about medical tech? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Narf the Mouse Posted December 13, 2013 Report Share Posted December 13, 2013 Maybe I'm being obtuse Narf, but what does that have to do with the article about medical tech? We're in the future. It's amazing. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
bigbywolfe Posted December 13, 2013 Report Share Posted December 13, 2013 Still seems like a complete thread derail. Maybe I'll try reading it again when I'm more awake... Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Narf the Mouse Posted December 13, 2013 Report Share Posted December 13, 2013 Still seems like a complete thread derail. Maybe I'll try reading it again when I'm more awake... Yes, please get some sleep. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Old Man Posted December 13, 2013 Report Share Posted December 13, 2013 The tech in the OP is very interesting because I know that, for certain types of breaks, it is very difficult to get the bone to grow back together. If you could basically epoxy it back together with something like this it could greatly improve the outlook for people with those kinds of injuries. 3-D printing is flippin' huge in medicine these days. They're printing organs for chrissakes. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
L. Marcus Posted December 13, 2013 Report Share Posted December 13, 2013 Haven't looked at the article, but breaks that would be hard to heal anyway -- like a dislocated collum femoris fracture -- wouldn't be much helped by glue. Disrupted blood flow would still lead to necrosis of the caput. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Narf the Mouse Posted December 13, 2013 Report Share Posted December 13, 2013 Haven't looked at the article, but breaks that would be hard to heal anyway -- like a dislocated collum femoris fracture -- wouldn't be much helped by glue. Disrupted blood flow would still lead to necrosis of the caput. It's not just glue. It's printing additional bone cells on the break (for actual details of application, ask a doctor; I don't have a clue how you'd apply it, practically speaking). Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
L. Marcus Posted December 13, 2013 Report Share Posted December 13, 2013 I'm in med school, and spent the spring term with the orthopedics. I still say blood flow is the main trouble -- how is oxygen be able to get to the osteoblasts through a polymer? It'll be interesting to see how the trials turn out. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Narf the Mouse Posted December 13, 2013 Report Share Posted December 13, 2013 I'm in med school, and spent the spring term with the orthopedics. I still say blood flow is the main trouble -- how is oxygen be able to get to the osteoblasts through a polymer? It'll be interesting to see how the trials turn out. Well, you'd know more on the subject than I do. It could be porous, but I'm also not a chemist and don't know how ridiculous the idea of a porous polymer might be. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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