Ethically sourced “spare” human bodies could revolutionize medicine - Human “bodyoids” could reduce animal testing, improve drug development, and alleviate organ shortages.
Ethically sourced “spare” human bodies could revolutionize medicine
I’m sure that’ll go great with capitalism
They'll humane-wash it with some fraud credential they created — like everything else — but the body inside will be some Palestinian, Uyghur, or "other" gulag prisoner; sourced from a fascist pipeline.
It’ll turn into “Soup Is Good Food” by DK or Soylent Green so fucking fast
A little glass vial? A little glass vial!
I believe Larry Niven wrote about this very concept.
If I recall, it seems that while nice in theory, capitalism and less ethical folks become a problem quickly. To be fair though, the same can be said if pretty much any industry.
They want $7500 for an eyeball? No, no, no! I can get you one for $750. Free range, not caged. Good stuff. Mostly legal. Meet me in the dark alley tonight.
In other news, I was today years old when I clicked on all the eyeball imagery in Blade Runner. Missed the forest for the trees kinda thing.
I take lungs now, gills come next week.
i seem to recall a scarlett johansson/ewan mcgregor movie about this
The Island? I don't recall it being a big hit, but I enjoyed it.
It starred Scarlett Johansson and Ewan McGregor. We could watch them watch paint dry for two hours and it would still be pleasant on the eyes.
I think Kiera Knightley and Andrew Garfield did one with a similar, if less action packed, one.
"Grown without the nueral components for awareness, thought or pain"
Somehow I doubt that
No brain no pain
"Ethically sourced." Uh huh.
It's not ethics that brought us in our current situation, but the lack of it.
Recent advances in biotechnology now provide a pathway to producing living human bodies without the neural components that allow us to think, be aware, or feel pain.
Oh no, they've discovered how to make lab-grown Republicans!
ask me again why i want to be cremated.
Wtf is this crap from? We have too many bodies donated for science. So much that we can't use them all a few years back.
Good for med students though. Never short on corpses to practice on! Fr. Some students got kicked from uni for desecrating a corpse. They took out the intestines, made a lassoo from it and tried to swing it around.
Image a greenhouse where they grow human feet, whole legs, loose eyes and a bunch of hearts next to another greenhouse where they grow arms that wave as you walk past, their fingernails perfectly groomed. You see a bunch of scalps with a youthful head of hair next to some carefully protected brains. Perfect teeth growing row after row. And as you look around you realise how happy people will be with the spare body parts you're growing, and feel a deep form of gratitude your father got you in this new industry because thanks to him you are a rich man with a big house and a big car and a perfect wife.
Lack of available test tissue might be slowing down drug approvals, but the main reason we don't see cures is that drug companies don't want to sell cures, they want to sell chronic treatments. If you cure a person you have a customer on Tuesday. Treat their condition and you have a customer for life. Drug companies aren't motivated to produce cures any more than Nike is motivated to sell each person exactly one pair of shoes. This is a very good reason why public health should be publicly funded and publicly distributed. When medicine is an expense instead of a profit center, we'll start curing diseases instead of maintaining them.
The Island awaits you...
BABE WAKE UP HOMUNCULI JUST DROPPED
Been saying this ever since I heard of lab-grown meat. Why would you wait for kidney donation when your own DNA can be used to grow a healthy kidney for transplant.
Kidney 5843B, you have won a trip to the island!
Sorry but until capitalism is gone this is just crazy stupid.
yum, ethical long pork and organs.
Pretty sure there’s a million scifis about humanoids that feel human pain. That hommonculous is old enough to scream if it had a mouth.
Oddly, without the neural component it would be worthless for nearly all drug testing. And since they don't really understand how things like the gut are almost like a second brain, the lack of a neural component will really hamper most things.
Not to mention spontaneous sentience. We're so smart we're dumber than dirt.
so cloning people.
Wonder how the so called “pro life folk” will be about this?
Didn’t we want to clone ourselves in case we needed a kidney some years back?
I don't see a problem with this.
The problem is that corpses are big business. As horrible as that is.
You're as likely to end up being a crash test dummy for some MIC bomb R&D as you are to be used by a medical student when you "give your body to science"
Gaza has a ton. ruzzia too.
