Re: [DIYbio] 3D printing medical devices

On Thu, Sep 27, 2012 at 4:33 PM, kingjacob <kingjacob@gmail.com> wrote:
> @michael: just a heads up, in google groups you can fork a conversation by
> editing the subject. So rather than clutter the wiki cleaning discussion
> which is still over here with talk of 3D printing Medical Devices, we now
> have two conversations.

They aren't quite separate issues if, in fact, the 3D printing of
medical devices -- specifically implantable ones -- fails to qualify
as DIYbio. 

> Anywho, back to 3D printing. Yes, the articles I posted are academic but
> that's really just a word. Maybe 7 years ago when the work was first done it
> would have been outside the scope(read: price range) of DIYbio but not
> today.

I need what Wikipedia calls a reliable source. Can you give me a quote
from a peer-reviewed journal, book, news article? Blogs and mailing
lists generally don't count. I've got you saying that 3D printing of
medical devices (or components thereof) is DIYbio. Period. Someone
else is saying it's DIYbio if you then implant the device in yourself.
Presumably, if you implant one in someone else, you're practicing
medicine, which is not exactly DIY unless you're doing it without a
license, in which case ....

Forget hypotheticals.

Give me a proper source.