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Scientists grow functioning kidney
April 15, 2013 at 12:56 pm
http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/health-22123386
Quote:A kidney "grown" in the laboratory has been transplanted into animals where it started to produce urine, US scientists say.
Similar techniques to make simple body parts have already been used in patients, but the kidney is one of the most complicated organs made so far.
A study, in the journal Nature Medicine, showed the engineered kidneys were less effective than natural ones.
But regenerative medicine researchers said the field had huge promise.
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RE: Scientists grow functioning kidney
April 15, 2013 at 1:00 pm
So science is advancing to the point where a new kidney can be grown for grandma while the theists just pray to their sky-daddy for a magical cure. If I had to bet I'd say science will attain their goal first.
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RE: Scientists grow functioning kidney
April 15, 2013 at 2:24 pm
(April 15, 2013 at 1:00 pm)Minimalist Wrote: So science is advancing to the point where a new kidney can be grown for grandma while the theists just pray to their sky-daddy for a magical cure. If I had to bet I'd say science will attain their goal first.
They'll just claim that god led the scientists to that discovery. Figure a week before some nutcase starts cut-n-pasting texts from the Koran to show how Allah predicted vat-grown kidneys in 995 A.D.
"Well, evolution is a theory. It is also a fact. And facts and theories are different things, not rungs in a hierarchy of increasing certainty. Facts are the world's data. Theories are structures of ideas that explain and interpret facts. Facts don't go away when scientists debate rival theories to explain them. Einstein's theory of gravitation replaced Newton's in this century, but apples didn't suspend themselves in midair, pending the outcome. And humans evolved from ape- like ancestors whether they did so by Darwin's proposed mechanism or by some other yet to be discovered."
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RE: Scientists grow functioning kidney
April 15, 2013 at 3:29 pm
God is a very malleable concept to these shits. They will try to hammer him in anywhere they can to salvage their silly beliefs.