All the 'You' That's Fit to Print 3D printers to make human body parts? It's happening From: San Jose Mercury News - 01/28/2015 By; Steve Johnson It sounds like something from a science fiction plot: so-called three-dimensional printers are being used to fashion prosthetic arms and hands, jaw bones, spinal-cord implants - and one day perhaps even living human body parts. While the parts printed for humans so far have been fashioned from plastic, metal and other inorganic materials, researchers in California and elsewhere also have begun printing living tissue, with the goal of eventually employing these "bioprinters" to create customized kidneys, livers and other organs for people needing transplants. What's particularly attractive about the technology, according to its proponents, is that 3D printers can produce body parts much quicker and cheaper than other methods. Read the entire article at: http://www.mercurynews.com/News/ci_27412983/3D-printers-to-make-human-body-parts?-Its-happening Submitted by Fred Hornbruch