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Lucid Lunacy
reply to post by stumason
Does the presence of neurons in the heart increase its complexity though?
jjkenobi
Blah blah blah. I read about these amazing scientific discoveries like this and the first thing I wonder is WHY am I still bald? They can grow a lung in a jar. They can grow an ear on the back of a rat. I can't grow some hair on my bald noggin? I want some answers.
luciddream
Blasphemy! devil's works!
Enzo954
This reminds me of that movie "The Island". The wealthy will eventually have clones on standby to replace failed organs and needed body parts.
WonderBoi
Won't be long, til they make those human robots. The ones they have now, complain too much. lol
SLAYER69
Research team successfully grows human lung in lab
(Medical Xpress)—A team of researchers with the University of Texanderfful s has, for the first time, successfully grown a human lung in a lab. Project leads Dr. Joaquin Cortiella and Dr. Joan Nichols announced the landmark breakthrough to various members of the press this past week, describing the procedure and what was achieved.
Growing organs in the lab has become a reality in the past couple of years as scientists have learned more about stem cells and how they mature to become the cells that make up organs and other body parts. Windpipes, for example, have been successfully grown and implanted into human patients, and just last spring, a team of researchers at Massachusetts General Hospital in Boston successfully implanted lab grown kidneys into rats. In this new effort, the researchers have been focusing on growing one of the most complicated organs in the human body—the lungs.
What does ATS think about this?
It seems they are moving forward with lab grown organ replacements at an ever increasing speed. I have a thread in the works along these lines. I came across this story while researching for it. Outside the obvious smokers needs for a new set I think this is a wonderful development for people with lung problems not related to smoking.
I know some may be against such developments.
Anyway, I thought it was worth posting...
Enzo954
This reminds me of that movie "The Island". The wealthy will eventually have clones on standby to replace failed organs and needed body parts.