Hiya!
So as I was looking around last week for more medical stuff, I happened to find this video about PRINTING our own MEDS. What?!?
This guy, Lee Cronin, is a professor and a chemist. And he has this crazy idea that would could use something kinda like that 3D printer (remember the dude that 3D printed the heart?) and derive our own medications.
Watch the video. I'll post a directive on Wednesday.
http://www.ted.com/talks/lee_cronin_print_your_own_medicine
Wednesday edit: Give me one question you'd like to ask Lee Cronin. PLEASE NOTE: If your question has already been asked you'll have to try again to receive blog credit. No two questions should be alike.
74 comments:
How would you prevent the misuse of your product?
It seems to me that there would be a lot of people who would want to use it to get their next fix.
-McClanahan, 1st period
How precise is the printer?
Clifton 1st
How will having a 3-D printer in your house be cost effective? You will have to print off all of the stuff you want and regular printer ink is already crazy expensive. You can only imagine how much this stuff will cost.
Eason, 1st. :D
What exactly made you feel as though this would be the next revolutionary technique to evolve the new creation of medicine through one app when so many things could possibly go wrong?
-Heyn, 1st Period
About when would this be available to the public at an affordable rate?
About when would this be available to the public at an affordable rate?
Culpepper, 2nd Period
My question to Dr. Cronin is how much time would it take to make a certain amount of medications at a deadline?
My question to Dr. Cronin is how much time would it take to make a certain amount of medications at a deadline?
What are the drawbacks in printing your own medicine? It seems like he doesn't want to say that anything will go wrong if everyone does start doing this, but most likely it will have a negative effect.
- Barrios, 1st period
My question to Dr. Cronin is how much time would it take to make a certain amount of medications at a deadline?
Cameron, 1st prd
Erin that was my question too!
Graded. Great questions. Keep 'em coming.
PS? Erin has already asked about misuse. Any question like that, i.e. "What keeps me from making my own meth?" won't be counted.
Roll on.
many Drug addicts may take advantage of this machine by printing more than needed. how Can You Control That?
Johnson, 2nd
Would a 3D printer to produce your own medication be cost efficient or would it be too expensive for the average person to afford?
Slide, 2nd period
What makes you so certain that your 3D printer will print out the correct amount of milligrams for each pill? Like is the printer very accurate at printing out pills?
Hill 2nd period
If the medicine is somehow printed of spelled wrong, cause it is known to happen, how can one avoid getting the wrong medicine?
Delagarza, 2nd Period.
how are you supposed to create new drugs when you dont have the necessary chemicals to make it? like what if it doesnt exist?
Torres Per2
how are you supposed to create new drugs when you dont have the necessary chemicals to make it? like what if it doesnt exist?
Torres Per2
if drug dealers got a hold of this devise and take a whole bunch and sell them how may you stop the process.
jacorey winn , 2nd period
how can you stop drug dealers from getting the technology and selling the drugs for cheap, easy money?
Conner Covington
2nd period
how can you stop drug dealers from getting the technology and selling the drugs for cheap, easy money?
Conner Covington
2nd period
Would the medications made have codes for just simple pain killers or would the codes be for intense, high powered medications?
-Irwin, 2nd
How exactly will this idea work? It just seems strange to me that someone can combined certain molecules & come out with a certain medicine. & what if you print a certain type of medicine that could be very dangerous or doesn't help what it was originally needed for? How would you know which ones are the right ones to use? I know we live in a place where we are becoming more & more advanced in technology, but this is just strange to me.
Laronda Steadham, 2nd Period
although being able to print meds seems like an pretty awesome development especially to the elderly... but I don't think everyone should be trusted to do this. Does a doctor have to give you permission to prints certain medications? If not the world looking at not only a good development but a new crisis to worry about.
-Coen, 2nd period
My question is, will the standard meds printer that will be released be able to make only certain kinds of medication or every single kind?
My question is, will the standard meds printer that will be released be able to make only certain kinds of medication or every single kind?
~Lopez, 2nd period
How is the program going to know what your doing with the individual amounts of molecules you buy for "medicines".(Kadence 2nd Period)
How would you find out that the wrong people will be making bad decisions with the device to make your own medicine? Would you not let the people with a record with a bad use of drugs to have this device to make their own?
P.s Mrs. L I am using my blog pass for last Thursday when I was out.
Jones 2nd period
could this new technology make it easier to get medicine in less developed countries like in Africa
Conner Covington
2nd period
if you had to pay for the medicine would you pay the normal price or would you pay a smaller or larger price for the 3D Meds.
Jacorey winn , 2n period
if you had to pay for the medicine would you pay the normal price or would you pay a smaller or larger price for the 3D Meds.
Jacorey winn , 2n period
some people may not be able to afford these printers. is there any way you would be able to help them pay off ?
Johnson, 2nd
I think its a great idea and also a bad idea because people could misuse it and tale of advantage of it but other then that I think it is a great invention.
-Sweat , 8th period
I like the idea of being able to print your own medications. Nevertheless as long as you cant get to much medication at once and also how accurate is this idea? how do you know that what u ordered is what your going to receive?
taylor walker 7th period
How could you be so sure that the printer won't mess up the order your trying to give it, so that it doesn't give you the wrong type of medicine?
Your Favorite Mexican, 7th Pd. (~^_^)
Id like to ask him if you could use this sub-atomic printers to print other things than just Medicine? As in, Virus'? Could it be used in biological weapons and be released to the public? Even by say Military use? very scary thoughts if something like this could get out in the public.
-Zach 7th
I think it is cool, the concept of printing medications for some people this is a very6 helpful tool say if a person cant leave home to get their meds or maybe they cant even walk to the mail box to get them either then they can print them in their own home and people can even set limits on how many meds you can print like if you only take a certain amount of the medication then there can be an online prescription that says for the printer to only make so many of this med
- Devon Corley 7th
cisco
I would have to us more people to help me fix up the stuff an then I would print all of the stuff I use to make it work.
How would you protect your product from being used by other people or companies? I'm sure that they'll use this to get more money and still your productivity to try to create something similar or even better than the product you made that they have stolen. Another really good question, Will there be discounts or would it be on sale?
-Ibanez, 7th period
Would We Have To Install Seperate Software For Different Types Of Medicine Or Would It Be All In One? And How Close Is This To Being Comeplete?
Teal 7th
What If you someone tried to misuse the 3-D printer? How would you stop it?
Natepoleon
2nd period
What's the plan if some one prints to much so that they can OD and kill themselves, and their family sues?
(I really wanted to ask about printing meth.)
-SWalker, 7th
what if the app just crashed what would happen?
kevin sanchez
7th
Will it be possible to print exploding chemicals, special poison or narcotic? I don't think a device would be allowed to sold to anybody and I don't really believe in drugs. Think about how much people can get food for their whole life from the money, they might spend on developing such a printer.
Wah,7th period
And One More What If It Actually Hurts Than Helps? Like What If It Messes Up And Actually Gives You Even More Deseases And Not Cure At All?
Teal 7th
I think this is a good idea but for some people it will be hard to print some of their medication.
guardado 7th period
I think this is a good idea but for some people it will be hard to print some of their medication.
guardado 7th period
Most drug medications nowadays has side effects, which would mean I would have to keep printing a never ending supply of medications to help each ones side effects go away?
-Roland G
7th Period
Do you think your product will result in more illegal contraband in the country?
Macon-7th
How healthy and reliable will the medicines be?
Cano, 7th pd
Can we legally buy drugs that are required to make our product? For example, there is many illness people that cannot buy medicine that contain certain drugs according to their doctor?
Venegas,7th period
Even if you have your own personal medicine, what if this becomes an addiction and gets out of hand? Or what happens if something doesn't go right and wrong chemicals could be inserted in to the medicines?
Garcia, 7th pd
What if the medicine doesn't work and the person continues to take it and it gives them some weird reaction or some other problem and they sue you for their new medical problem??
When you say that you want to use "chemical inks" do you mean to insunate that it would be printed on paper? Or would it be 3D printed into pill form? When you mean by "printing" medicine, do you mean pills? What about people who need liquids such as insulin injections???????
Carrasco 8th hr
What if the medicine doesn't work and the person continues to take it and it gives them some weird reaction or some other problem and they sue you for their new medical problem??
T-Dawg 8 th period
how healthy and reliable are the medicine are they even safe to swallow with all that plastic printing of medicine?
-Castro (~^_^~.)8th period
so can u make any kind of drug can u make real drug out what does the printer use to make the stuff?
Dillion sanches
how would you feel if every drug dealer uses the printer to print out drugs?
Ferguson, 8th period
I have a hard time using a computer for anything more advanced than Microsoft word. Do you honestly trust me to make my own medication at home, on an app that may or may not be reliable?
Kwiatkowski, Eighth
Could you explain how the 'inks' form the medicine? Also, what if a certain reaction has to happen to form the chemical you need? How long does it take to print a single medicine?
Cespedes -8th
I would ask him how could prevent someone from taking advantage of the printer .
sweat 8th period
Would there be a standard machine for printing or could other companies make machines that do the same thing?
Taylor 8th
My question for Dr. Cronin is what would you do about people who try to take the printed drugs and turn around and try to make a profit off of them? How do you plan to stop it?
Cold 8th
How would you like the medical field to progress with your discovery? What would you like to be next? I wonder if he wants to have fully 3D printed bodies in the future.
-Labbit 8th
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how healthy and reliable are the medicine? Are they even safe to swallow with all that plastic printing of medicine? Are they safe and wont cause harm or any reaction to the person? Are they going to use the real medicine liquids or powder that the real medicine have? Do they dissolve with water when you take them like the real ones? And does the 3D printer even know how to do liquid form medicine?
-Castro (~^_^~.) 8th period
What if it fails , would you have a plan b or it just fails ?
-Ikner,Tye 8th prd.
ok a printer of any sorts cant make things out of thin air so you would still have to supply them with the chemicals and ingredients so personally I think this would only be useful at a doctors office where you're getting what has ben prescribed there's no abuse and the guy making it knows what he's doing can you imagine the suits if someone dies from a preprogramed drug
Ben Blough 8th
graded
Lots, LOTS of yall will have blog zeroes this week. Many of you didn't even read my directive. Most of you didn't bother to read down and see if your question had been asked already. Sorry bout ya.
Is the 3-d printer easy to use? Would anyone be able to operate it without problems?
Gipson, 8th Period
I think this is really cool, but I could only imagine that it would be VERY expensive
Kyle 2nd
What if the 3D printer were to print the wrong medicine? How would you go back and re-do what has gone wrong?
-Wright, 7th
How would we be able to get all the vitamins minerals and elements and stuff to make your own medication ,because I think you can't just go to Wal-Mart and buy a huge brick of vitamin A
D'Andre 8th period
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How easy to use would the software be? Does it require any special knowledge in molecular chemistry?
-Oliver, 1st period
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