{"id":7912,"date":"2011-02-21T11:10:50","date_gmt":"2011-02-21T15:10:50","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/?p=7912"},"modified":"2011-02-21T12:14:06","modified_gmt":"2011-02-21T16:14:06","slug":"3d-printings-next-trick-ears-and-skin","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/2011\/02\/21\/3d-printings-next-trick-ears-and-skin\/","title":{"rendered":"3D printing&#8217;s next trick: ears and skin"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>In the gee-whiz world of 3D printing, the next new thing may well be <a href=\"http:\/\/www.bbc.co.uk\/news\/science-environment-12507034?utm_source=twitterfeed&#038;utm_medium=twitter\" target=\"_blank\">printing skin<\/a>:<\/p>\n<blockquote>\n<p>Three-dimensional printing is a technique for making solid objects with devices not unlike a computer printer, building up line by line, and then vertically layer by layer.<\/p>\n<p>While the approach works with polymers and plastics, the raw ingredients of 3D printing have been recently branching out significantly.<\/p>\n<p>The printers have been co-opted even to make foods, and do-it-yourself biology experiments dubbed &#8220;garage biotech&#8221; &mdash; and has most recently been employed to repair a casting of Rodin&#8217;s sculpture <em>The Thinker<\/em> that was damaged in a botched robbery.<\/p>\n<p>But at the annual meeting of the American Association for the Advancement of Science in Washington DC, the buzzword is bioprinting: using the same technique to artfully knock out new body parts.<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>In the gee-whiz world of 3D printing, the next new thing may well be printing skin: Three-dimensional printing is a technique for making solid objects with devices not unlike a computer printer, building up line by line, and then vertically layer by layer. While the approach works with polymers and plastics, the raw ingredients of [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[66,15],"tags":[679],"class_list":["post-7912","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-health-science","category-technology","tag-3dprinting"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p2hpV6-23C","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7912","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=7912"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7912\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":7913,"href":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7912\/revisions\/7913"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=7912"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=7912"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=7912"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}