# How long before we have ‪organ printing or stem cells ‬to replace body organs? **URL:** \ **Category:** In My Humble Opinion\ **Created:** [August 17, 2017, 1:11am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/how-long-before-we-have-organ-printing-or-stem-cells-to-replace-body-organs/793841 "2017-08-17T01:11:27Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 6\ **Page:** 2
**Author:** ![drewder](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/57b2e6/32.png) [@drewder](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/drewder)\ **Post date:** [August 30, 2017, 1:15pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/how-long-before-we-have-organ-printing-or-stem-cells-to-replace-body-organs/793841/21 "2017-08-30T13:15:34Z")
> [@Flyer](#): > > I can understand a Joe Schmoe not following the news. But it never fails to amaze me how so many Dopers–people who are otherwise intelligent and knowledgeable–are so utterly ignorant of current events. > [http://www.smithsonianmag.com/innovation/soon-doctor-print-human-organ-on-demand-180954951/](http://www.smithsonianmag.com/innovation/soon-doctor-print-human-organ-on-demand-180954951/) > [https://www.circa.com/story/2017/02/03/whoa/could-westworld-ever-be-a-reality-this-doctor-is-already-3d-printing-tissues-and-organs](https://www.circa.com/story/2017/02/03/whoa/could-westworld-ever-be-a-reality-this-doctor-is-already-3d-printing-tissues-and-organs) > [3-D-Printed Skin Leads the Way Toward Artificial Organs | MIT Technology Review](https://www.technologyreview.com/s/603511/3-d-printed-skin-leads-the-way-toward-artificial-organs/) This response seems needlessly demeaning. The amount of new information each day is far too large for anyone to take it all in and to be well informed on every topic is a practical impossible. Sent from my SM-G955U using Tapatalk ---
**Author:** ![JohnT](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/johnt/32/15048_2.png) [@JohnT](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/JohnT)\ **Post date:** [August 30, 2017, 1:49pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/how-long-before-we-have-organ-printing-or-stem-cells-to-replace-body-organs/793841/22 "2017-08-30T13:49:09Z")
> [@lazybratsche](#): > > Could you name a few companies working in this area? Preferably those that are interested in hiring freshly-minted PhDs… > > Sent from my Nexus 5X using Tapatalk PM me your email address and I’ll send some names. Don’t know if they want freshly-minted PhD’s, but that’s your job to convince them they _do_. 🙂 ---
**Author:** ![lazybratsche](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/l/ba8739/32.png) [@lazybratsche](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/lazybratsche)\ **Post date:** [August 30, 2017, 11:06pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/how-long-before-we-have-organ-printing-or-stem-cells-to-replace-body-organs/793841/23 "2017-08-30T23:06:03Z")
> [@JohnT](#): > > PM me your email address and I’ll send some names. PM sent - thanks! > [@](#): > > Don’t know if they want freshly-minted PhD’s, but that’s your job to convince them they _do_. 🙂 Don’t I know it… the job listings I’m looking at are almost all asking for 2+ years of postdoc experience, but I’m hoping I can talk my way straight into a real job and skip the postdoc. ---
**Author:** ![Darren\_Garrison](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/darren_garrison/32/92_2.png) [@Darren\_Garrison](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Darren_Garrison)\ **Post date:** [September 1, 2017, 5:12pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/how-long-before-we-have-organ-printing-or-stem-cells-to-replace-body-organs/793841/24 "2017-09-01T17:12:07Z")
[A good article on the subject](https://www.theguardian.com/science/2017/sep/01/paolo-macchiarini-scientist-surgeon-rise-and-fall?CMP=twt_a-science_b-gdnscience). ---
**Author:** ![sweat209](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/9fc348/32.png) [@sweat209](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/sweat209)\ **Post date:** [September 1, 2017, 10:05pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/how-long-before-we-have-organ-printing-or-stem-cells-to-replace-body-organs/793841/25 "2017-09-01T22:05:12Z")
> [@Darren\_Garrison](#): > > [A good article on the subject](https://www.theguardian.com/science/2017/sep/01/paolo-macchiarini-scientist-surgeon-rise-and-fall?CMP=twt_a-science_b-gdnscience). Is there not some FDA over looking this? I read about cases where they have 3D printed a organ than over time it dies or break down. That probably what happen to the 17 people he give 3D printed windpipe. It work for some days than started to die or break down. Base reading it say Vascular structures such as blood vessels, along with artificial vascular constructs, allow for the diffusion of key nutrients and oxygen. May be why the wind pipe died or started to break down. A lack of natural biological signaling and processes? ---
**Author:** ![sweat209](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/9fc348/32.png) [@sweat209](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/sweat209)\ **Post date:** [September 8, 2017, 1:33am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/how-long-before-we-have-organ-printing-or-stem-cells-to-replace-body-organs/793841/26 "2017-09-08T01:33:12Z")
Here progress of made in Organ Printing!!! 3D Tissue and Organ Printing Project - Sabancı University‬ And ‪3-D printing organs‬ 3d printed human organs [![]( " - YouTube") ](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TVoV6u3vp8k) [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/how-long-before-we-have-organ-printing-or-stem-cells-to-replace-body-organs/793841.md?page=1)