What if Black Market Sellers Get their Hands on BioPrinters?

[Brian_Krassenstein]

The what-ifs surrounding bioprinting are complex. While researchers have made huge strides and the emergence of 3D printed organs for transplants is just a matter of time, this is enormously uncharted, unregulated territory. What happens when the bad guys get their hands on bioprinting? Will they perhaps be able to start bioprinting a wide range of organs and sell them on the black market? The potential is certainly there for a huge trade in ‘knock-off’ bioprinting organs in the future. The hope is that such fabricated organs will be made wide available and affordably so that no one has to resort to buying a kidney or a liver in the shadows. Read more at 3DPrint.com: https://3dprint.com/150332/black-mar...rinted-organs/

[awerby]

"Psst! Looking for a new liver? Just got a new load in, fresh off the printer..."

[curious aardvark]

The hope is that such fabricated organs will be made wide available and affordably so that no one has to resort to buying a kidney or a liver in the shadows.

what more is there to be said ?

Given that bioprinted organs will most likely be made from an individuals own differentiated stem cells to get rid of the potential of rejection, it's not something that will ever get to the black market.
Well not with the curent predicted technology.

If someone manages to produce something from 100% artificial tissue that has doesn't get rejected, then, well then the hospitals will have the technology, so again no black market.