3D printers have come a long way from being used to produce things like spoons, nuts, hammers, and other simple household items. We have seen the technology make its way into a number of different market industry spaces: medical, architecture, dental, automotive, and many more.
3D printers are now printing cars, pizza, chocolate designs, cheese, cakes, braces, and even houses.
They've also decreased in price over the years as more competition has entered the market. You can now find a 3D printer for less than $100, and then there are commercial scale set-ups that can easily cost thousands. It depends on the size that you want and the quality etc.
Some folks who've still found them too expensive have even taken to building their own. Like one student at UC San Diego who recently custom built his own because he thought others were too costly.
One area where 3D printers have proved to be incredibly useful is in the area of producing human tissues. They can print skin, ears, bones, and other organ tissue (like liver and heart etc). It really is incredible to see the potential for 3D printing technology and to think about the various ways that it can be utilized in order to bring value to the market, it almost seems limitless.
And researchers in South Korea say that they have recently made a breakthrough in the way of advanced skin models and 3D printing technology. The new method that they've established allegedly shortens the time and decreases the cost of printing human skin with a 3D printer.
Researchers estimate that it reduces the cost by 50x and requires roughly 10x less base material.
The researchers have detailed their single step process in the journal Biofabriciation, and the process involved creating a hybrid 3D cell-printing system. They hope that one day their newly established system will be used as the platform one day, for research that is geared toward engineering human skin models that are fully functioning.
At the moment, South Korea is one of the biggest investors in this technology. They recently pledged to invest at least $37 million into 3D printing technology for 2017 alone. That funding is going to be coming from the Ministry of Science, ICT, and Future Planning.
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Sources:
http://triton.news/2017/06/3740/
https://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2017/06/170611204318.htm
https://steemit.com/science/@doitvoluntarily/3d-bioprinter-for-printing-human-skin
http://www.reuters.com/video/2017/03/15/madrid-scientists-create-human-skin-with?videoId=371303216
http://www.tctmagazine.com/3D-printing-news/south-korea-invest-37-million-3d-printing-2017/
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@doitvoluntarily that is a perfect read for me at the moment. I have just been to a fare, which took place parallel to the Blockchain expo, where I got a tour through the possibilities of 3D printing. This was mind blowing!
I took this photo:
Printed with the help of free open source instructions. Cost point: 20 Euro for the material! 20 Euro that can change a person's/kid's life tremendously in countries with a lacking health insurance. Just stunning!
Since then I am overwhelmed by this topic.
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Thank you for posting this sir!
Here's another incipient technology right on the cusp of true functionality. The holy trifecta in medicine right now is 3D printing, stem cell therapies and CRISPR. Each one is astonishing on its own, and together they have the potential to synergize like gang busters.
If our species can survive until these techniques are fully mature, then loosing your liver to cancer could one day be the medical equivalent of a broken leg. That may seem extreme, but takeb to their logical conclusions, these technologies have the potential to enable those kinds of results.
That is awesome. I hope this results in better treatment for burn, cancer, and vascular issues.
I'm sure they'll be printing human organs before long
amazing stuff
This is an incredible step forwards for technology. I wouldn't be surprised if in the next 10 years or so we have actual replicators.
3D printing is going to change the world.
great share nice technology post.
It's going to be interesting to see how far this technology goes!
for building human parts as well as just prototyping they can be an amazing tech breakthrough. I dont know about a plastic house though.
the house looks pretty sweet
Fantastic read! 3D printing has definitely come a loooong way since the beginning. Thanks for sharing!
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This is a huge technology win for humanity. It will also help decentralize the means of production, a win for liberty and freedom.
So high tech now. Need to read to not get behind
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I think 3d Printing is a great technology and it seems like new innovations with it are popping every day. It's a exciting time that we live in!
3D printing is the most revolutionary discovery of science which is helping different fields.
I remember seeing a 3D food-printers a few years ago and wondering how this technology hasn't been applied to mainstream markets yet.
I know some analysts think that 3D printing was a fad which failed, but there are so many applications for this technology that can be capitalized on that I can't imagine the market being anywhere near the end of its expansion.
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I think they're about to try a head transplant soon. If they can make that work maybe we'll be "printing" new bodies to change into before long! :)
Everytime I reads about that, it is crazier :)
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Very informative article. I had no idea the technology was that far advanced. I had seen an article about the 3D printed house, but nothing on the medical frontier.
The technology is mind-blowing.
Can't wait for more people to use 3d printing! It's going to allow people to be more independent and not have to rely on someone else to obtain certain things like clothes for example. It's going to be interesting to see where this technology goes in the future.
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I have written an academic paper related to Additive forming (type of a 3D printing technology that deals in manufacturing of airplanes, cars, etc.) I know 3D printing is an amazing technology but there are some drawback that have made it fall back such as porosity and mechanical stress associated with it, which in the long term would lead to fracture of the material due to the fatigue the material will undergo during its life time, because of which it's still isn't being used as widely as its potential is, but if they find a way around it, then it will be a paradigm shift in manufacturing technology similar to that we saw in household PC industry in the late 80s and early 90s.
This kind of technology is amazing and could lead the way in some marvelous things to come!
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That' definitely more then home 3D printer can make:)
I found this article amazing. What will we be able to do next?
And here I was thinking people were just going to use it for printing things they didn't feel like spending money on...
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Understanding this article is much harder if you confuse South and North Korea. I got almost to the end, with a very confused look, until I realized South Korea is NOT Kim Jong-un's Korea. XD
I actually heard which is no joke and i think its worth to do a blogpost on. It is planned to build an outpost on the moon, because Rocket launches are cheaper because of the low gravity.
And => 3D printers will be used on the moon to build the infrastructure!
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