Ted Talks: Lee Cronin: Print Your Own Medicine

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Ted Talks: Lee Cronin: Print Your Own Medicine

Chemist Lee Cronin is working on a 3D printer that, instead of objects, is able to print molecules. An exciting potential long-term application: printing your own medicine using chemical inks.

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Feb 7, 2013 10:03 AM

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Re: Ted Talks: Lee Cronin: Print Your Own Medicine

What a double-edged tech this is. And soon, someone who cannot pay for their meds will illegally download the formula, use molecular resources to print or get a black market print of the drug, then be sued or imprisoned for breach of patent. More problems, imagine...

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Re: Ted Talks: Lee Cronin: Print Your Own Medicine

We already have the technology to refrain from imprisoning each other for not dying. Too bad we don't yet have the technology to legislate intellectual property without huge bags of money changing hands.