Friday, January 31, 2014

3D printing State of the Union

    I am always checking with the vehicle of 3d printing as a whole everything can look shiny on the outside. New areas, new innovations and mergers. Their was even a glancing mention of it in the State of the Union Tuesday night. That's not the pinnacle of 2014, right?

   I noticed a glaring deficiency in the amount of academic grants pushing the industry forward. Corporate innovation and Maker innovation are great but they only lead to profit and hobby. Government funding (not in an auto industry) but rather in an emphasis to stimulation one area that will not be receiving that emphasis is the 3D printing of organs. Legislation is in the works is in the works that could ban this activity by 2016. I am not sure of the legal difference
between cloning, stem cell research and 3D printed organs in the United States, but your best bet is to look overseas for innovation in these cases. Academic grants should be used as guides before legislation is necessary.

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