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Originally Posted by Starfury
There's a still bit of a difference in difficulty between cultivating half a handful of cartilage material on a mouses back and growing a new liver...
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Not quite. Some of the more complex organs are still far away, but we are capable of growing other less complex organs in a lab. They take some original cells of the organ, induce their replication and shape it to grow into a certain form, either in vitro or attached to another organism, like a pig or rat to support its growth. The end result is a virtually identical organ.
The technology to grow these organs exists already, what doesn´t exist is the political will and the correct legislation. Thus the work is on standby.
But if permission was given, we could have a working program in just a few years.