Comments on: 3D printing the brain

By: tooto

tooto — Thu, 25 Apr 2013 02:53:58 +0000

the trick is we need incredible brain sensing technology to send the singles to the machine.

By: Stefanie

Stefanie — Mon, 18 Feb 2013 01:01:36 +0000

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By: Carson Chow

Carson Chow — Mon, 23 Jul 2012 15:51:23 +0000

The problem with transporters is that we need to 3D scan and then 3D print and we don’t know what resolution we’ll need. At some point we will run into measurement and molecular manipulation limits. We’ll also have to freeze dry and slice you to scan you.
There is also the issue of how long it will take to scan or print something as complex as a brain. If we print at the nanometer scale then that’s a hundred million layers for a brain. If we could print at a rate of a layer per second, which is pretty fast, then that would take about 3 years. We have a long way to go technologically I think.

By: Byong Kwon (GMU)

Byong Kwon (GMU) — Mon, 23 Jul 2012 13:26:40 +0000

If we can 3D print a brain at the molecular level, is it plausible that we can build a (Star Trek) transporter? Although, we will need some safe guards so that we don’t wind up with an evil Capt. Kirk as in the “Mirror, Mirror” episode.