Ethically sourced “spare” human bodies could revolutionize medicine
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Human “bodyoids” could reduce animal testing, improve drug development, and alleviate organ shortages.
    • d00phyEnglish
      6•1 month ago

      I think Kiera Knightley and Andrew Garfield did one with a similar, if less action packed, one.

      • @[email protected]English
        6•1 month ago

        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.

  • This is fine🔥🐶☕🔥English
    11•1 month ago

    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.

  • tenchikenEnglish
    40•1 month ago

    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.

  • Lovable SidekickEnglish
    11•1 month ago

    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.

    • @[email protected]English
      37•1 month ago

      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.

      • FingolfinzEnglish
        22•1 month ago

        It’ll turn into “Soup Is Good Food” by DK or Soylent Green so fucking fast

  • @[email protected]English
    16•1 month ago

    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!

  • @[email protected]English
    13•1 month ago

    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.

  • @[email protected]English
    14•1 month ago

    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.