Monday 13 October 2014

The Strange and Radical New World of 3-D Printed Body Parts

The Strange and Radical New World of 3-D Printed Body Parts

A few years ago, if a horrific infection ate your jawbone, doctors had to build makeshift mandibles from your fibula, a process that left you sliced open as surgeons painstakingly whittled away at replacement bone. Yech. Today they can just hit Control-P: Based on MRI and CT scans of your busted-up body parts, hyperspecialized 3-D […]


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from WIRED » Science http://feeds.wired.com/c/35185/f/661470/s/3f670cad/sc/14/l/0L0Swired0N0C20A140C10A0C3d0Eprinted0Ebody0Eparts0C/story01.htm

via Science News

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