Mary Roach

So they are doing some amazing stuff with

Artificial materials for broken, bashed up joints, bones.

So if you're not using plastic like that, if you're using squishy material, that whole process of doesn't work well because it's squishy.

You need a solid base that you're building from the bottom up.

So you really can't do it.

It would be like building a cathedral out of tofu.

You can't do it.

So the researcher, Adam Feinberg, had patented this method where they'd have a support gel.

You've got this gel that you're printing it

inside of and that is supporting the stuff that you're printing so it doesn't go all would you umpus and wiggly and then you'd heat it up and then the support bath melts away it's not printing a brochure you know i mean it's similar you know like you know you've got different extruder heads and there are different kinds of bioprinting you know i was just looking at this one extrusion method which kind of

You know, similar to the kind that you described.

You know, when I was in China, I was talking to the guy who's been working for 30 years on xenotransplantation, you know, having these organs available.

And while I was there, before I left, rather, I was on this, there's some pig news website.

What's it called?

I can't remember.

It's got a great name, like

pig progress.

It's pig progress.

I was going through back issues of pig progress.

And I came across, there's a 26-story piggery in China, 26 stories of vertical farming.