Printing New Skin: Saving Lives With Ink Jet Printers

By modifying an ink jet printer and growing skin cells from a patient's
body, a U.S. Army research lab has developed an amazing treatment for
severe burns: printing new skin.

Once the patient's skin cells are in a sterile ink cartridge, a computer
uses a three dimensional map of the wound to guide the printing.

"The bio-printer drops each type of cell precisely where it needs to
go," explains Kyle Binder, a biomedical scientist at the Armed Forces
Institute of Regenerative Medicine's Wake Forest lab. "The wound gets
filled in and then those cells become new skin."



WOW.....

This will be an amazing tool to help a lot of people...

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This will be amazing if implemented into hospitals, however I feel it is going to be used to earn money, and without the need for money or power the army wouldn't exist so that would mean less casualties...

Well yes, its all about money and profit, many research projects need an extensive amount of income in order to produce successful outcomes, in many cases that's where the army comes in, sometimes that can be a good thing, other times not since many applications never find their way into the public even though they are of great value.
But this technology is amazing and relatively simple, although only few will profit from it in the future, those with a costly insurance.
But in the end I like the idea of a bio printer, there is research being done to figure out how to "print" whole organs like a heart or a liver for replacement.