Re: [DIYbio] 3D printing medical devices

On Mon, Oct 1, 2012 at 12:40 PM, General Oya <generaloya@gmail.com> wrote:
> I went to BUGGS community lab this saturday here in Baltimore and was
> chatting with Tom about this technology. He and I both have been thinking
> about the use of this on bone and possibly ivory.
> I really would like to forward an initiative = Faux' Real to see if we can
> harness and mass produce ivory and endangered furs to destroy the lucrative
> trade in poaching that continues at an accelerated pace during these trying
> global economic times.

[snip]

Especially good if you could clone out of the wild. That way, there's
little or no basis for distinguishing between "fake" and "real"
because they'd both be about as real as a DNA test could determine.

However, from speaking very recently to someone about to enter a
bioengineering PhD program specializing in tissue growth, I'm forced
to wonder if the state of the art is going to be good enough any time
soon, to grow animal hides at scale -- or even at all.

Regards,
Michael Turner
Project Persephone
1-25-33 Takadanobaba
Shinjuku-ku Tokyo 169-0075
(+81) 90-5203-8682
turner@projectpersephone.org
http://www.projectpersephone.org/

"Love does not consist in gazing at each other, but in looking outward
together in the same direction." -- Antoine de Saint-Exupéry

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