There is a weirder future coming in bioprinting.
Recently, a 20-year-old young woman underwent the first ear transplant, which is very exciting.— kind of a dot printer, if you will — and layer by layer, they built up a living artificial ear that could accept circulation from her own body.
It's not yet quite to the point where we could see somebody print out a functioning heart. That's too complicated in terms of getting everything right so that it would work — although someday, but not soon. Same thing with a functional liver. Think about blood components, skin, or maybe the lining of the intestine.
Where might that end? People could certainly say,"If you're making me an ear, why don't you make me green ears because that'll be cool. It'll match my hair color or other aesthetic, fashion, or cosmetic alterations that are in the offering." At the same time, someone may say,"I have birth defects or I suffered an injury. As long as we're doing this, can't we do something different?" That's going to be a place where professional societies, associations, and doctors are going to have to step in and say,"This is what we will do for money. This is what we won't do."
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