• Question: Do you think we will be able to print people in 3D printers soon?

    Asked by Shar37 to Steven, Sarah, Lidunka, Jillian, Connor on 18 Jun 2015.
    • Photo: Jillian Scudder

      Jillian Scudder answered on 18 Jun 2015:

      I don’t know about whole people, but we are starting to be able to 3D print spare parts for people who have lost them or need replacing – I think we printed out an ear skeleton that you can then grow your own skin over, which is super cool. I know we’re working on printing kidney skeletons too, which will be really useful for people who need them.

    • Photo: Steven Thomson

      Steven Thomson answered on 23 Jun 2015:

      We can print out artificial limbs and other replacement body parts, but I think it’ll be a while before we can print whole people. We’d never be able to reproduce human brains, though – even if we could print a body, we’d need to transplant a brain into it!

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