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Making organs from scratch

posted by Zed on March 24 2002 17:52

A Japanese scientist is growing frog organs in a petri dish from frog embryo stem cells.

Technology that Asashima is developing could eventually help doctors use stem cells from humans to regenerate or replace damaged or destroyed human organs, like the way a lizard reproduces a severed tail. It would eliminate the need for donor transplants.

Now how expensive will this be for humans? And how much of that expense will be due to making human stem cells needlessly hard to get?

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wow, cool. one day we'll be able to be cannibals without any moral consequences. safe soylent green is on the way, hooray! someone get astra-zeneca on this :)

Posted by kenny on March 26 2002 08:40

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