Scientists print self-assembling 'living tissue'. - Polidicks

[QUOTE]Researchers have created networks of water droplets that mimic some properties of cells in biological tissues. Using a three-dimensional printer, a team at the University of Oxford, UK, assembled tiny water droplets into a jelly-like material that can flex like a muscle and transmit electric signals like chains of neurons. The work is published today in Science. Journal: [URL]http://www.sciencemag.org/content/340/6128/48[/URL] Source: [URL]http://www.nature.com/news/scientists-print-self-assembling-living-tissue-1.12743[/URL][/QUOTE] See source for video.

That's awesome.

I just got a vision of 3D printing your own pets. I'm so excited for the future.

Aye so, in the future we'll all be made of jelly. I for one welcome our flubberesque future.

I'm here for John Conner.

[t]http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/en/thumb/8/82/Flubber.jpg/220px-Flubber.jpg[/t] make it happen, science

[QUOTE=Waterpi;40171483][t]http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/en/thumb/8/82/Flubber.jpg/220px-Flubber.jpg[/t] make it happen, science[/QUOTE] science, please don't

Soon I can download myself a jelly GF.

[QUOTE=Naaz;40170570]I just got a vision of 3D printing your own pets. I'm so excited for the future.[/QUOTE] [IMG]http://24.media.tumblr.com/tumblr_m2lv4a9lDl1qfqerho1_400.jpg[/IMG] Some things are best left untouched by man.

[QUOTE=The Un-Men;40171605][IMG]http://24.media.tumblr.com/tumblr_m2lv4a9lDl1qfqerho1_400.jpg[/IMG] Some things are best left untouched by man.[/QUOTE] I liked the idea, until you posted this. Now it is just terrifying.

inb4 the blob devours us all

fuck yeah science omg so awesome fucking badass eat dirt regious buts, science here we come

living tissue over metal endoskeleton someone call DARPA or maybe we are finally close to creating Shoggoths

[media]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=eQR1r1KTjaE[/media]

[img]http://3.bp.blogspot.com/_QTA4z9i9CAQ/S-dVI4d-bkI/AAAAAAAAB38/JSr_cGWGX04/s1600/weird_sciencebra.jpg[/img] Finally, technology is catching up to John Hughes movies.

can we use this tissue to blow our noses?

[QUOTE=HazzaHardie;40176526]can we use this tissue to blow our noses?[/QUOTE] Or can I donate what I blow out of my nose to be made into tissue?

[QUOTE=Dantai;40176534]Or can I donate what I blow out of my nose to be made into tissue?[/QUOTE] Can I make the ideal wife out of the mucus produced in my throat and nose?

Kill it. Kill it now.

Does this mean goo-girls could be a real thing in the future? Oh my.

Science has made human's god... literally.

I really want to know how long before we can get limbs that won't be rejected by our bodies, and will have our own bio-signature.

I want to be able to go all Terminator 2 Shapeshifters are cool

I wonder if, exposed to the right signal, it could form into meat by absorbing nutrients in the petri dish?

[QUOTE=ironman17;40176894]I wonder if, exposed to the right signal, it could form into meat by absorbing nutrients in the petri dish?[/QUOTE] "You wouldn't download a hamburger"

To hell with the DRM; so long as you have the protein mix required to grow it, you should be able to grow whatever you damn-well please. Also, if anyone tries to infringe on your meat-printing freedoms, print a sword made of bone-fibre and slice them up as a final fuck you.

[QUOTE=entertainer89;40177043]"You wouldn't download a hamburger"[/QUOTE] The fuck I wouldn't.

[QUOTE=Desuh;40171531]Soon I can download myself a jelly GF.[/QUOTE] [img]http://fc07.deviantart.net/fs51/f/2009/333/1/8/slime_girl_by_Piketh.png[/img]

[QUOTE=Empty_Shadow;40171692]inb4 the blob devours us all[/QUOTE] Instantly reminded me of [URL=http://vimeo.com/54812287]this[/URL]

Put this over the latest version of PETMAN and you got yourself a terminator