Saturday, March 23, 2013

Weird Frankenstein Science

"It's alive, Igor, alive." What horror movie comic imitator hasn't said those words? Now science is getting closer to doing just that, creating life.

See a Wall Street Journal article about successfully growing human parts in a lab jar. They've already grown simple body parts and implanted them. Now they're trying to do more complex structures.

Somewhere a  multi-billionaire has read this and is thinking "I'll have them grow me a new body to replace this old one that's wearing out." If I were that billionaire I'd sure think about doing it.

If they could only figure out how to download the contents of your tired, old brain into a new, fresh one....