[Future Useless Eater]

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It sounds like a LOT of diseases could have breakthru's soon. Imagine, a CURE for type I diabetes, by growing a new pancreas.

Other interesting topics seen there...

• Out-of-body operation banishes tumours

• Rat neurons control robot

• A collagen-dissolving drug could provide 'chemical liposuction'

• Gene study identifies five main human populations

• Complete tadpole eyeballs grown in lab

• Lab-grown muscle sheets repair damaged hearts

  In a related story ... "Researchers have grown lengths of the corpus cavernosum in the lab" ... THAT would certainly 'lift' men's egos! /pun>

[gov_bean_ counter]

This explains the yellow spot next to my PC.

[gov_bean_ counter]

Sorry, couldn't resist.

[Scully]

Ping!

[gcruse]

Wow. The future is coming in a flood.

[Husker24]

That must have been one BIG mouse.

[MHGinTN]

If the feat can be repeated in humans, it will allow doctors to replace damaged organs without the need for a donor. This writer obviously doesn't consider a 'fetus' (latin for child) an individual human being thus there is 'no donor'. Therapeutic cloning will be the insertion of a patient's nuclear material into the de-nucleated egg from a donor, then a static charge will begin a gestation of individual life (but not a human life since the 'scientists' never intend to allow the gestating life to come to full term before being 'harvested' for parts). At the time when tissues have differentiated sufficiently for identification the fetus will be terminated and the tissues harvested for treatment of the parent of the clone.

The trick will be to take cells from the patient in need of a kidney and grow a kidney without going into the fetal stage. That would be cloning of a sort without cannibalizing.

[Sonny M]

This is one of those things that hits home personally. My father is very ill, his one kidney has pretty much failed and we are delaying dialisis. Here is my question to all the freepers out there. Would you support or oppose a "Implied Consent" law. Basically, on the back of your drivers licience, it gives you the option to be an organ donor, if you don't fill it out, your not. What I want is the reverse, that you automatically are an organ donor and you have the option to opt out on the back of the card. What do you Freepers think about this? I know at least one or two european countries already do this. I do not know how there systems work though.