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Homebrew insulin or diy 3D printed meat? (lemmy.one)

submitted 1 year ago by Kurt@lemmy.one to c/asklemmy@lemmy.ml

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Which do you think we're getting first?

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[–] Kolanaki@yiffit.net 3 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago) (1 children)

They already have chocolate 3D printers, and lab meat is almost or already at market somewhere and would also actually make someone money in our largely capitalist dominated world, so I'm gonna go with that.

[–] _cerpin_taxt_@lemmy.world 4 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Chocolate 3D printers are a hell of a longshot from 3D printing genetic tissue lolol

[–] Kolanaki@yiffit.net 2 points 1 year ago (1 children)

I'm just thinking that having food safe printing stuff makes it slightly closer to reality than the other option, even if the medium would require reengineering some of the internal parts.

[–] _cerpin_taxt_@lemmy.world 1 points 1 year ago

I think most 3D printers are food safe technically, as they get really hot, which should kill the bad stuff. I haven't looked into the chocolate printers, but I've got to imagine it works pretty similarly to a standard 3D printer: nozzle gets very hot and you just insert "filament" rolls or cartridges made of chocolate instead of plastic. A meat printer would need to do a lot more, if you're talking just completely making meat from scratch. Would be awesome, but I think we've still got a ways to go before those are consumer friendly.