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Current Events => General Discussion => Topic started by: bijou on June 26, 2009, 10:53:43 AM
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It's a defining moment in a parent's life: Seeing their unborn child's image on an ultrasound for the first time. Now pregnant women could have the chance to hold a life-size model of their unborn baby.
The startling new medical technology is the result of a Royal College of Art design student's PhD.
Brazilian student Jorge Lopes has pioneered the conversion of data from ultrasound and MRI scans into life-size plaster models of living embryos using a method called rapid prototyping.
'It’s amazing to see the faces of the mothers. They can see the full scale of their baby, really understand the size of it,' said Dr Lopes.
'The technology can be also be used as an emotional tool for parents whose foetus might be deformed or need treatment,' added Hilary French, who heads the School of Architecture and Design Products. ...
link (http://www.dailymail.co.uk/sciencetech/article-1195703/The-stunning-new-technology-allows-parents-hold-life-size-model-unborn-child.html)
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This should be required at all abortion clinics. Let the mother see what she is about to kill.
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Cue abortion enthusiasts outraged in.............3..........2...........1
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Actually the technology is not that new but the application of it is. For a few years now rapid prototyping has been used to make prototypes for new models to sell outside of the local hobby shops. I saw a prototype of the Delta Flyer Shuttle from Star Trek :Voyager done in 1/48Th scale and as I held it up to look at the details I was told to be careful because that thing cost $10,000 dollars to make.