Science is really making leaps and bounds!
Posted: 29th Aug, '13, 03:32
This is pretty amazing
http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/health-23863544
http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/health-23863544
Sorry, I couldn't resist!
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Re: Science is really making leaps and bounds!
Posted: 29th Aug, '13, 07:45
Re: Science is really making leaps and bounds!
Posted: 29th Aug, '13, 07:55
Pretty fantastic. I know they are also making leaps and bounds with livers, hearts - these have a more tangible application as in matching organs for transplant. I always thought it would be possible, I'm wondering when the first one is put into a patient. 10 years?
Re: Science is really making leaps and bounds!
Posted: 29th Aug, '13, 08:14
Will read article in second, but the brilliant thing on FBI observation around transplant organs will be possibilities of eliminating those nasty rejection medications as well. So cool.
Re: Science is really making leaps and bounds!
Posted: 29th Aug, '13, 16:47
just imagine the use: a little human brain in your pc, fridge, tv, car, lifts in buildings, maybe even your dog or cat.
the possibilities are endless!
the possibilities are endless!
Re: Science is really making leaps and bounds!
Posted: 29th Aug, '13, 19:52
I would hope sooner than 10 years but clinical trials do take a while. And yes, the other organs are probably a lot more useful, still it's pretty amazing they managed to "make a brain" - though far from perfect.
I don't think I'd like my pet having a human brain, however if my fridge could tell me what to cook for dinner based on the contents of my fridge using it's brain rather than mine that'd be something!!
I don't think I'd like my pet having a human brain, however if my fridge could tell me what to cook for dinner based on the contents of my fridge using it's brain rather than mine that'd be something!!
Re: Science is really making leaps and bounds!
Posted: 30th Aug, '13, 13:47
I would buy that fridge!chocolate wrote:if my fridge could tell me what to cook for dinner based on the contents of my fridge using it's brain rather than mine that'd be something!!
Re: Science is really making leaps and bounds!
Posted: 30th Aug, '13, 19:00
As I always tell Mr Chocolate when he says "I'll make dinner" then turns around and asks me "what do you want for dinner" - the point is not really the cooking of the dinner, but the thinking of what to cook for dinner!!! 
(Hence my nerdy whiteboard with both freezer contents and our meals listed out most weeks so I can retain some sanity)
(Hence my nerdy whiteboard with both freezer contents and our meals listed out most weeks so I can retain some sanity)
Re: Science is really making leaps and bounds!
Posted: 6th Sep, '13, 11:51
I read an article about lab grown liver and burger as well. All these lab grown stuffs reminds me of a movie called "The Island". Pretty scary if we can 'grow people' in the near future.
Re: Science is really making leaps and bounds!
Posted: 6th Sep, '13, 12:03
Oh, I really liked that movie. Good science fiction.steviestiles wrote:I read an article about lab grown liver and burger as well. All these lab grown stuffs reminds me of a movie called "The Island". Pretty scary if we can 'grow people' in the near future.