TED - Growing Organs & Regenerative Medicine

Anthony Atala's lab grows human organs -- from muscles to blood vessels to bladders, and more. At TEDMED, he shows footage of his bio-engineers working with some of its sci-fi gizmos, including an oven-like bioreactor (preheat to 98.6 F) and a machine that "prints" human tissue.
choggiesays...

The best part of these technologies in the current paradigm is that only ultra-rich cocksucking assholes will be able to afford it! Tony here knows it, but do you people who think the worlds a fairy tale land of gummy bears and free pussy think so???

LarsaruSsays...

Wow, aren't you Mr. Positive? Of course 1st gen technology is expensive, it is experimental and not massproduced. Give it 50 years and it will be cheaper but without the, so eloquently described, ultra-rich cocksucking assholes to pay for it and act as guinnea pigs who would develop it? Seeing as so much research goes into curing the ailments of the poor like Malaria, less money than is spent on an average skin lotion or hardon pill if I would venture a guess, as the poor can't pay for it and giving stuff away for nothing is a sure fire way to get poor yourself. Life sucks for the sick and poor compared to the rich and healthy, just ask the people in Haiti... (too soon?)

Oh, I almost forgot... Do you sell tickets to that fairytale land? I want to go there as it sounds wonderful! Candy and free cats! YAY!!

>> ^choggie:
The best part of these technologies in the current paradigm is that only ultra-rich cocksucking assholes will be able to afford it! Tony here knows it, but do you people who think the worlds a fairy tale land of gummy bears and free pussy think so???

deathcowsays...

It is true that the operations to put replacement organs in are anything but cheap, but the money exists, my daughter had her liver swapped and I could never afford it for example. Lets say that swapping a major organ costs $400,000, and this new organ grow sells for $80,000, thats $480k. The 990 billion spent on Iraq so far would have paid for 2.06 million organ replacements to date. So the tech exists, the money exists, etc.

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