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General Category => Science, Technology and Knowledge => Topic started by: rangerrebew on January 07, 2019, 04:05:20 pm
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by Caroline Haskins
Dec 14 2018, 11:45am
‘Marie’ Is the First Life-Sized, 3D-Printed Human Body
Marie—a five-foot-one, fifteen-pound 3D printed body—could be used to help create better radiation treatments for
Meet Marie, the very first life-sized 3D-printed human body made from bioplastic, developed by LSU engineering student Meagan Moore to test real-time radiation exposure and figure out optimal radiation therapy dosing for treating conditions like cancer.
According to an LSU press release, Marie is five-foot-one-inch tall and weighs 15 pounds. She also has a detachable head, and a 36-gallon water storage capacity for up to eight hours.
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Also, Marie is also a lovely shade of purple. (“Purple was on sale,†Moore said in a press release.)
https://motherboard.vice.com/en_us/article/yw7kzv/marie-is-the-first-life-sized-3d-printed-human-body
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Here is hoping their dreams come true on this one. IF they manage to get the bugs worked out,they will be able to do stuff like create and test thinks like artificial kidneys in the artificial human body.
Not to mention artificial arms and legs.
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I am a big 3d printing enthusiast (have three 3d printers of my own). Amazing how the the uses for this technology continue to grow.
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Can it go to the kitchen and make me a sammitch?
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Can it go to the kitchen and make me a sammitch?
Well they did say she has a detachable head.