Re: ARTERIES Engineered-Non-Neonatal

From: Robert J. Bradbury (bradbury@aeiveos.com)
Date: Sat Jun 07 2003 - 12:53:01 MDT

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    On Sat, 7 Jun 2003 Spudboy100@aol.com wrote:

    > You are surely not reffering to biological-medical technologies, when you
    > mention robust technologies? You must focusing on a-biologics, like inorganic
    > organs, tissue, and brains, right?

    I have a "Plan A" and "Plan B" approach (and would likely have "C" and "D"
    if I had enough time to think of them). [There has to be a movie out there
    where someone witty says "that plan will never work" (be it "A" or "B" or ...)]

    At any rate. I am not so extremely optimistic about the rate of development
    of "a-biologics" that we will have them in the next 20, perhaps even 30-40
    years. I would like that to be the case but I think the regulatory hurdles
    may slow things significantly (unless one goes offshore).

    *But* I am fairly optimistic about the development of biological therapies
    to provide near-term solutions (e.g. stem-cell therapies are moving *much*
    faster than I would have predicted even 5 years ago).

    So if biological solutions provide 10/20/30 year solutions (Plan A)
    until a-biological solutions based on nanotechnology or similar
    therapeutics become available (Plan B) or even uploading is
    developed as a reliable technology (Plan C) -- then I'm a
    happy camper.

    Robert



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