<p>Building custom organs from our OWN cells! This has some promise for us who may need new lungs! No rejection & no worry about poor quality. It makes ME optimistic!</p>
<p>Rejection and insufficient number of good quality organs for transplant is a HUGE issue currently. It is fascinating and has great potential. Could also help reduce the cost of transplants because folks shouldn’t have to take anti-rejection drugs for the rest of their natural lives!</p>
<p>If you grew enough of those organs, you would actually have an identical twin. A walking, talking person who has the same genes as you but is a different person.</p>
<p>It brings ethical issues. I’m not going down this path to discuss it, but people who are into it will have to debate it and we will have to create boundaries as far as what is and is not permissible cloning of people.</p>
<p>Very interesting; should be helpful, assuming it works right. My concern is that it will only be the rich who can afford this. However, I suppose that would still free up some normal organs for transplants to others.</p>
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There are far easier ways to make a clone. Further, you couldn’t grow a new brain with the same neural wiring, so there would be no talking/walking. A brain would have to develop naturally to be of any use. Thus, the “Dolly” method of cloning is still the most viable, and that just makes a “clone” that’s the same as a much younger identical twin, certainly not the same person as you.</p>
<p>I think this has amazing potential and could help the many who die on waiting list for replacement organs, including livers, kidneys, lungs, and hearts. Imagine being able to get a replacement organ when yours is unable to function and not having to take tons of anti-rejection drugs that are so expensive and have awful side effects. This would be such a boon to those who have been devastated by war as well.</p>