A question about hype since I know almost nothing about biology;
Is this possible? - http://microfabricator.com/articles/view/id/538989659aad9d53...
Is this possible? - http://microfabricator.com/articles/view/id/538989659aad9d53...
The actual '3D printing' is still far from possible, but not impossible. We can synthesize DNA, but we can't synthesize bacteria (even though we now can make artificial bacteria, but these are based on already existing bacteria from which the DNA has been removed [2]).
Once we can synthesize bacteria we can go to bigger things like fungi, other animals, humans. I'd give it 100-200 years.
[1] http://www.ijcaonline.org/archives/volume69/number19/12083-8...
[2] http://www.nature.com/news/2010/100520/full/news.2010.253.ht...