CryoNet #32241

CryoNet - Mon 21 Dec 2009

    #32241: Growing Body Parts [ramole]

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Message #32241
From: [email protected]
Date: Sun, 20 Dec 2009 22:06:25 EST
Subject: Growing Body Parts

We concentrate on preservation of the brain because we say that upon  
restoration perhaps a century from now they will be able to put the brain  into a 
fine new body. That part is looking ever-more-likely as they make  rapid 
progress in growing organs. 60 Minutes had an article last week on  progress 
in that field.  A couple of years ago they could do bladders and  implant 
them in people, but now they have done a mouse liver and implanted it in  a 
mouse, and are actively working on kidneys, hearts and lungs.
 
Read about it here or watch the video. Also the video on growing a  kidney 
is good.
 
_http://www.cbsnews.com/stories/2009/12/11/60minutes/main5968057.shtml_ 
(http://www.cbsnews.com/stories/2009/12/11/60minutes/main5968057.shtml) 
 
At the rate they are going it looks like they'll be close in twenty years,  
so a century is too conservative. Anyway, it's good news.
 
Alan Mole
 




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