Film Analysis: The Fifth Element

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One of the most exciting new technologies being developed today is the manufacture of replacement body parts to be used to treat illnesses in humans. Today, this is accomplished in part through the use of bio-printing to 3-D print living cells into more complex structures. In the movie, The Fifth Element, there is a scene that takes this technology to the extreme and manufactures an entirely new human. The process used in the movie starts from a sample of one cell, preserved inside of a metal gauntlet, and then proceeds to recreate the person whose cell that used to be. The print in the movie is physically done by creating one part of the body, such as the skeleton, at a time. The entire print in the movie only takes around two minutes. The idea behind this scene in the movie is not too far-fetched and it features some technologies that are very similar to what is being developed today. The first thing the movie gets right about bio-printing is the fact that each body system is printed using a different tool. Today there are three main techniques used in bio-printing (ink-jet printing, laser printing, and extrusive printing) and each one has different strengths and weaknesses. Ink-jet based bio-printing uses “a “bio-ink,” made of cells and bio-materials, to print living cells in the form of droplets (each contains 10,000–30,000 cells) by using a non-contact …show more content…

If relevant technologies continue to develop at their current pace then I expect replacement bones and simple organs to be available within my lifetime, and I don't think we will be able to print an entire human for a long time after that, if ever. One major problem with printing an entire human I see is printing the brain. Not only is the structure of the brain complex, we currently do not know enough about how it works to be able to reproduce

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