From: Robert J. Bradbury (bradbury@aeiveos.com)
Date: Mon Dec 23 2002 - 08:54:28 MST
On Mon, 23 Dec 2002, Greg Burch wrote:
> http://news.independent.co.uk/world/science_medical/story.jsp?story=3639
> 76&dir=505&host=3
Alternate URL:
http://www.sciencedaily.org/releases/2002/12/021223083434.htm
Interesting, I thought about posting this but I didn't see the discovery
as that exciting to bother the list about. Perhaps I see Greg Fahy's work
on vitrifying organs as solving this problem sooner and don't think of
this as "that" significant. One still has the problem of the time it
takes to grow adult sized organs through "natural" processes. That may
only be solved with "whole genome engineering" to an extent that provides
a faster cell division time (in normal eukaryotic organisms its ~24 hours
but one "should" be able to speed that up significantly). A new kidney
may be of no use if it takes a pig 5-10 years to grow one (unless you
can afford to grow up a spare supply in advance).
But of course having multiple paths is probably a good thing.
R.
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