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I think the biggest step will come once we start transplanting organs from clones of ourselves. Apart from traumatic or infectious diseases, being able to repla
by marcodiego 5y ago
I think the biggest step will come once we start transplanting organs from clones of ourselves. Apart from traumatic or infectious diseases, being able to replace most vital organs would extend our lives to the last remaining non-transplant-able organ.
- meh99 5y agoTransplant medicine is going to seem like archaic nonsense in the future. We’ll just consume the chemical cocktails that normalize us: https://youtu.be/RjD1aLm4Thg https://youtu.be/RjD1aLm4Thg
- sdenton4 5y agoJust get a nice brain transplant every eighty years or so and you, too, can live forever...
- nscalf 5y agoBack in 2020, a Japanese team did the worlds first transplant of lab grown heart cells into a patient. There is definitely progress being made on this.
- elcritch 5y agoEven more fun is 3D printing the desired structure and scaffolding of the target tissue or organ.
- kyriakos 5y agoOr transplant brain to clone body. As long as brain survives longer than the body