04-04-2006, 07:35 PM
I found this article to be particularly interesting: Link
Apparently, several bladders were "grown" using the patients own DNA and successfully implanted without the negative 'side-effects' associated with organ transplants (i.e. body rejection). The article claims science will soon allow us to grow any organ in the human body. This is really wonderful news! Hundreds, if not thousands of people in the US alone die while waiting for an organ transplant and now a method has been developed to ensure everyone can have one. I don't know about anyone else, but I find this avenue of science to be very exciting and look forward to whatâs to come.
Apparently, several bladders were "grown" using the patients own DNA and successfully implanted without the negative 'side-effects' associated with organ transplants (i.e. body rejection). The article claims science will soon allow us to grow any organ in the human body. This is really wonderful news! Hundreds, if not thousands of people in the US alone die while waiting for an organ transplant and now a method has been developed to ensure everyone can have one. I don't know about anyone else, but I find this avenue of science to be very exciting and look forward to whatâs to come.
"The true value of a human being is determined primarily by the measure and the sense in which he has attained liberation from the self." -Albert Einsetin