How to 3-D print a heart

Posted by jonbaer on Sunday October 25, 2015 @01:37PM
from the kurzweilai.net dept.

http://www.kurzweilai.net/how-to-3-d-print-a-heart

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Re:How to 3-D print a heart by pen2l on Sunday October 25, 2015 @03:01PM (#10447909)

Title misleading, they haven't 3d printed a heart, just some arteries. :( We are very, very far away from being able to actually 3d print hearts that could be used.

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Re:How to 3-D print a heart by jakobegger on Sunday October 25, 2015 @04:51PM (#10448367)

The same story with a less misleading title yesterday got fewer upvotes: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=10442755

(and even the arteries they printed are probably not actually functional)

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Re:How to 3-D print a heart by agumonkey on Sunday October 25, 2015 @05:10PM (#10448443)

At best I thought they were scaffold for another step, like covering the printed 'tree' with an elastic coating that would then be an 'artery'.

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Re:How to 3-D print a heart by kerningcultures on Monday October 26, 2015 @03:19AM (#10449957)

It's amazing to think we may one day be able to!

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Re:How to 3-D print a heart by latenightcoding on Sunday October 25, 2015 @03:14PM (#10447954)

So.. what open source software are they using?

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