(((You think those toy robots are something:
check this out. "The budding field of bioprinting."
Fabbing with live stem cells. No, really. You print live tissue, and it grows.)))
http://www.technologyreview.com/BioTech/17913/
You might well call it "the Meatrix":
http://www.openthefuture.com/2006/12/bioprinters_vs_the_meatrix.html
"We're still a ways away from being able to click 'print' and have a heart pop out onto a holding tray, of course..."
((((Yeah, right, Jamais, thanks for that cogent futurist reality-check there, (nod) )))
(((Great news, eh? A mind-boggling command of nature!
Now, if we could only get it together to fabricate the rare, flaming
Australian animals being driven headlong into extinction by the rapidly unfolding climate crisis:)))
http://www.planetark.com/dailynewsstory.cfm/newsid/39546/story.htm
