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6/4/2015 4:42:16 PM
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Lab-Grown Organs
[quote]Anthony Atala works in the body shop of the future. He is the director of the Wake Forest Institute for Regenerative Medicine in Winston-Salem, North Carolina, and he and his colleagues use human cells to grow muscles, blood vessels, skin and even a complete urinary bladder. Much of the work is experimental and hasn’t yet been tested in human patients, but Atala has implanted laboratory-grown bladders into more than two dozen children and young adults born with defective bladders that don’t empty properly, a condition that can cause kidney damage. The bladders were the first lab-generated human organs implanted in people. If they continue to perform well in clinical tests, the treatment may become standard not only for birth defects of the bladder but also for bladder cancer and other conditions.[/quote]
Incredible, humans are moving towards a golden age of science and technology. This is a possible cure for cancer, diabetes(?), and organ failure. What are your thoughts, Flood?
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3 RepliesI have no use for lab grown organs. Make me some lab grown humans, those I can do something with.
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And the body doesn't reject it as a foreign object? Also I don't get how this can create religious problems
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1 ReplyDidn't they use stem cells to create these organs? I thought I heard that from somewhere
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1 ReplySign me up for liver transplants and a longer snakelike penis dat has a cobra head
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Repo Men here we come!
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Over population taken to the next level Oh boy! I'm praying spaceX can get a jump on colonizing new planets.
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I approve
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1 Replywaaaaiiiiit.....so it's untested and unapproved, but they've already done it anyways?
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3 RepliesWell now we have to deal with the possibility that someones going to lean more towards playing God and facks us all over.
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That sounds really nice. Good luck to them, and I hope they're successful and able to make operations for transplants affordable, or at least not bankruptingly expensive to say the least.
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Didn't they use stem cells to create these organs? I thought I heard that from somewhere
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7777 (Great idea! The only weird part will be having a 200 year old looking like they are 20)
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1 ReplyIt will probably cost a fortune for the procedure though
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there may finally be hope for that guy...
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Awesome stuff. Now we just need to hit the golden age of energy, and environmental harmony.
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4 RepliesWell, my dad will be happy. Guy needs to get himself a new pair of lungs.
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[quote]Incredible, humans are moving towards a golden age of science and technology.[/quote]AHA no. Something else will come along and be the new bogey-man illness.
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2 RepliesWell there goes lung cancer Smoke up kids
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Are you kidding? Humans hit the golden age 2000 years ago and will never hit one as great ever again. The antikythera mechanism for example.
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I've seen a whole bunch on this stuff, and I think only good can come out of it. Nobody would have to wait in a queue to potentially get the essential organs they need replaced, and nobody else would have to donate these organs. The only problem, however, is money (which is usually the case for anything lately).
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13 RepliesInb4religiousnutjobtellsustostoplayinggod
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2 RepliesPossibly diabetes. Not cancer unless it required organ replacement. It could certainly prolong life. I went to school with a guy who designed a synthetic heart using nanotechnology and was working on synthetic lungs.
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4 RepliesMy thoughts are: 1) humans are smart. 2) people will bitch about some God irrelevance bible thumping bullshit about the morality.
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5 RepliesIf they use DNA from the recipient to grow it then there should be no chance that the body rejects it, right? What DNA are they using to grow them?
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5 RepliesEdited by SithSaint : 6/4/2015 8:28:06 PMWhat was that movie where if you didn't pay for your organ the med corp would send "Repo men" to cut it out of you and left you to die again? Lol
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Why aren't we funding this?!
