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littlestymaar
on Aug 15, 2019
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How close are we to 3D printing the human heart?
Then you cannot use the muscles, and you've just lost one the of the initial use-cases. Repeat it for any organ that need a functional body for its development and you might end up with really few useful parts from your “factory” actually.
TeMPOraL
on Aug 15, 2019
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Few is better than none, and at least for muscles, you could simulate the "stresses of everyday life" with machines.
echelon
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All I see are bioengineering problems. Once we start hill-climbing this solution path all the problems will become shallower and shallower.
emteycz
on Aug 16, 2019
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You can't use the animal muscles as well. What organs need moving, active body, if you can control hormone levels etc?
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