Which is More Likely: Transplants or Regrown Spare Parts?

In article <9aPcb.925$Hx4.206683488@newssvr13.news.prodigy.com>,
T Berk <"TBerk "@ sbcglobal . net> wrote:

 > Seeing as how things tend to 'improve' over time I got to wondering how
 > common it might be in the (near?) future that we might see organleggers
 > or might we jump past it to a time when we can regrow limbs and/or
 > organs (in a mason jar, on Funk & Wagnel's porch).

Growing your own spare parts is definitely the way to go, since it's the
perfect medical solution, and has greater 'market acceptance'. Growing a
new organ could actually be easier than regrowing a limb, since you'd do
it inside your own body, forming a second organ alongside the ailing one.

Studies with mechanical hearts have shown that the best strategy is to
leave the biological heart in place; relieved of the main load, it tends
to recover, and might even result in the mechanical one being removed.

With organs such as the brain/liver/kidneys etc, the process could be
even easier, since they're more amorphous. Just add extra quantities of
healthy material, and let the existing organ 'train' them into shape;
though of course this means doing the procedure sufficiently early.

Fortunately, the most life-threatening conditions are the easiest ones
to treat; while the trickier stuff, such as a new limb, is rarer. Yes,
this is all years in the future, but research would be greatly speeded
up if religious & moralist pressure groups can be sidelined.


Tennant Stuart

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Tennant Stuart wrote:
 >
 > In article <9aPcb.925$Hx4.206683488@newssvr13.news.prodigy.com>,
 > T Berk <"TBerk "@ sbcglobal . net> wrote:
 >
  > > Seeing as how things tend to 'improve' over time I got to wondering how
  > > common it might be in the (near?) future that we might see organleggers
  > > or might we jump past it to a time when we can regrow limbs and/or
  > > organs (in a mason jar, on Funk & Wagnel's porch).
 >
 > Growing your own spare parts is definitely the way to go, since it's the
 > perfect medical solution, and has greater 'market acceptance'. Growing a
 > new organ could actually be easier than regrowing a limb, since you'd do
 > it inside your own body, forming a second organ alongside the ailing one.
 >
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Hmm,

I was thinking of some sort of external growth, say with a an artificial
placental type arraignment- you know in a jar on a shelf.

How to grow an organ in the body with out the growth 'factor'
influencing the rest of the system seems troublesome.


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"T Berk" <"TBerk "@ sbcglobal . net> wrote in message
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 > Tennant Stuart wrote:
  > >
  > > In article <9aPcb.925$Hx4.206683488@newssvr13.news.prodigy.com>,
  > > T Berk <"TBerk "@ sbcglobal . net> wrote:
  > >
   > > > Seeing as how things tend to 'improve' over time I got to wondering
how
   > > > common it might be in the (near?) future that we might see
organleggers
   > > > or might we jump past it to a time when we can regrow limbs and/or
   > > > organs (in a mason jar, on Funk & Wagnel's porch).
  > >
  > > Growing your own spare parts is definitely the way to go, since it's the
  > > perfect medical solution, and has greater 'market acceptance'. Growing a
  > > new organ could actually be easier than regrowing a limb, since you'd do
  > > it inside your own body, forming a second organ alongside the ailing
one.
  > >
 > <snip>
 >
 >
 > Hmm,
 >
 > I was thinking of some sort of external growth, say with a an artificial
 > placental type arraignment- you know in a jar on a shelf.
 >
 > How to grow an organ in the body with out the growth 'factor'
 > influencing the rest of the system seems troublesome.
 >
 >
 > TBerk

The Gifts From Earth are starting to look more likely than the organ banks?

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In article <Ek1gb.13$SO1.1234181@newssvr21.news.prodigy.com>,
T Berk <"TBerk "@ sbcglobal . net> wrote:

 > Tennant Stuart wrote:

  >> In article <9aPcb.925$Hx4.206683488@newssvr13.news.prodigy.com>,
  >> T Berk <"TBerk "@ sbcglobal . net> wrote:

   >>> Seeing as how things tend to 'improve' over time I got to wondering
   >>> how common it might be in the (near?) future that we might see
   >>> organleggers or might we jump past it to a time when we can regrow
   >>> limbs and/or organs (in a mason jar, on Funk & Wagnel's porch).

  >> Growing your own spare parts is definitely the way to go, since it's the
  >> perfect medical solution, and has greater 'market acceptance'. Growing a
  >> new organ could actually be easier than regrowing a limb, since you'd do
  >> it inside your own body, forming a second organ alongside the ailing one.

 > I was thinking of some sort of external growth, say with a an artificial
 > placental type arraignment- you know in a jar on a shelf.

Yes, I know - but it's not the way to go. People are already used to
cut skin healing, it feels like a natural process, a part of you.


 > How to grow an organ in the body with out the growth 'factor'
 > influencing the rest of the system seems troublesome.

According to New Scientist magazine, research in stags is most promising,
as their antlers are regrown in situ every year; and it's been discovered
that a breed of laboratory mice can also regenerate certain tissues.



Tennant

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