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by roywiggins 2635 days ago
Why 3D print if it's just going to be for education, not individualized patient models?
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Ya know, I suppose in an ideal world you drive down the cost of on site manufacturing so you could spit out any model you wanted in the classroom. Want a healthy kidney? Boom, done. Want an organ that has a specific issue for a particular ailment being studied? Out it comes.