Science Fiction Comes Alive as Researchers Grow Organs in Lab

A big YES and an equally big NO.

Never mind the talk to the camera. The stemcells employed, of any kind, need direction. The best today is the skeleton structure in a heart valve. There, it directs to grow ONE sort of cells.

Growing an organ is a laudable undertaking. BUT, nobody to my satisfaction yet, spelled out the millions of satisfied conditions needed to do it.

This year, I am bombarded by stock offering of unknowns promising riches in the field. Yeah, right.

Where is the science? Any real part of that is worth a Nobel.

And I see none of it, sorry.

You will know it is truly a mainstream science when university students start to make reproductive organs as jokes.

What a world to live in, why back in my day all we had was paper mache and plaster of Paris

This is awesome! I need a few new vertebrae in my lower back and a few new tendons to make the new items work better. At my age 3/4" plywood is not like I remember 48 years ago, used to be so easy to throw it around. Dam stuff is heavy now. I do not like this new age.

Yeah this is Acme delivery,,we have that brain you wanted....

I'm a fan of the emerging 3D printed organ technologies, and bioengineering using fabricated scaffolds as well as stem cells is okay. The research described in the article though, uses a human heart as a scaffold, albeit stripped of the markers that cause organ rejection. This is not really a step forward, it doesn't address the root problem of a shortage of donor organs, and will promote the criminal market for cadaver parts. Meat market.... no thanks.