Re: MED/BIO: Organ Cloning Development (!)

From: ABlainey@aol.com
Date: Tue Jan 07 2003 - 19:38:14 MST


In a message dated 08/01/03 02:15:38 GMT Standard Time, mlorrey@yahoo.com
writes:

> I've got it: grow the organs in an animal that grows faster: elephants,
> whales, cattle, etc. I'll bet cows can grow human sized organs within a
> year or two.
>
> > Robert wrote:
> >
> > 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).
>

Why not implant immature organs straight into the patient? Current kidney
transplant recipients walk away with 3 kidneys, so surely half a dozen daisy
chained immature kidneys could handle the job. Hearts would offer a more
complex problem. perhaps the original heart and one or two immature hearts
plumbed in parallel?
Of course you may feel a bit bloated after a year or two, so removal of
excess organs may be necessary when they have grown, but then you also have
spare organs ready for someone else <G> it's a win win-win situation

Alex



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