Do you remember those scary movies where people's heads were in the ground like cabbages, and supposedly their bodies were buried below? I don't remember if they were alive or dead. But I found a product yesterday that seems in the theme of growing body parts.
Organovo is creating full-fledged human body parts.
This organization is basically printing livinghuman tissue. Currently, the technology can produce tissues of about twenty or so cell layers thick, comprised of multiple cell types. Already, they’ve created a functioning human liver; there’s no telling what else might come of this technology. Pretty soon, we might even be able to replace lost limbs and organs."
So I went to the Organovo website and here's one of their article introductions, entirely in line with my initial reaction:
"Remember when movies like The Island seemed like a scary yet foreseeable future? In 2005, the sci-fi thriller introduced a compound inhabited by clones used for organ harvesting, as well as surrogates for wealthy people in the outside world."
These are Halloween pictures from a few years ago - by chance I came upon a house in St. Catharines that was wildly decorated. What about the dogs going out for a walk?
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