Fucking wow!

"HUMAN intestinal tissue has been made in the lab for the first time from stem cells. The achievement is a big step towards replacing diseased gut tissue with fresh material in people with intestinal conditions such as inflammatory bowel disease and Crohn's disease.

Measuring a few millimetres across, the pieces of intestinal tissue made by the month-long process contain all the cells and features found in normal gut tissue, and grow by the same route as in embryos. "Our organoids are not quite the shape of the intestine, but like segments of it," says team leader James Wells of the Cincinnati Children's Hospital Medical Center in Ohio."

http://www.newscientist.com/article/mg20...-time.html

Screw biomechanics, at this rate we won't need it

That's awesome! But... it's sad that so many people are going to keep knocking it down.

(December 16, 2010 at 2:22 am)LWP17 Wrote: That's awesome! But... it's sad that so many people are going to keep knocking it down.

I doubt it. The team used human skin cells to make the stem cells. Usually the objection is when they use embryonic stem cells. I don't think most people have a problem with making stem cells from normal skin cells.

(December 16, 2010 at 12:58 am)theVOID Wrote: Screw biomechanics, at this rate we won't need it

It is way cooler show off chrome plated cybernitic body parts with blinking LED indicator lights then to meekly admit parts of my intestine that was grown in a petri dish is nothing to look at.

Can you imagine a future where our bodies can never die since parts can always be replaced?

Well, this is very cool and interesting.

HeyItsZeus, I've mentioned that in other threads. You'd be surprised at the bitching.

(December 18, 2010 at 4:13 pm)HeyItsZeus Wrote: Can you imagine a future where our bodies can never die since parts can always be replaced?

Well, this is very cool and interesting.

I would think it to be better if people will die so as to leave the field a little clearer for their descendants, so that humanity can be continuously replenished by fresher minds that are not too directly burdened by ignorances and prejudices of prior ages.