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From a bio perspective, it sounds like a great idea. From a squimish perspective... it sounds like something from a horrendous distopia. I just have visions of
by el_oni 6y ago
From a bio perspective, it sounds like a great idea.
From a squimish perspective... it sounds like something from a horrendous distopia. I just have visions of rows of human shaped tissue cultures.
A less horrendous version could be cultured cells for each organ, with some kind of circulation between them which one could test theraputics for cytotoxicity. I've seen "labs on a chip"[0] for things like PCR, I wonder if you could do that for drug testing in vitro.
[0]: https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lab-on-a-chip https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lab-on-a-chip
- blotter_paper 6y agoYou know how after the last big civilization all-out-war it turned out that the losers had secretly engaged in gross scientific experiments on humans? I think it would be naive to imagine that the winners didn't do so as well, they just didn't have their file cabinets put on display to retroactively justify the extreme violence that the world had just witnessed. Governments do scary things in basements, and they keep those basements as secret as possible -- we only get to see behind the veil when a government falls and an opponent successfully takes their files/scientists and that opponent has an incentive to make those files public. Not having brains attached would be a huge improvement over the current state of the art, in my opinion; I believe that we're probably already living in a world far more dystopian than the imagined one being discussed.