Ethically sourced “spare” human bodies could revolutionize medicine
www.technologyreview.com
Human “bodyoids” could reduce animal testing, improve drug development, and alleviate organ shortages.
  • Rivalarrival@lemmy.todayEnglish
    16·
    6 days ago

    Recent advances in biotechnology now provide a pathway to producing living human bodies without the neural components that allow us to think, be aware, or feel pain.

    Oh no, they’ve discovered how to make lab-grown Republicans!

  • Shou@lemmy.worldEnglish
    13·
    6 days ago

    Wtf is this crap from? We have too many bodies donated for science. So much that we can’t use them all a few years back.

    Good for med students though. Never short on corpses to practice on! Fr. Some students got kicked from uni for desecrating a corpse. They took out the intestines, made a lassoo from it and tried to swing it around.

  • Lovable Sidekick@lemmy.worldEnglish
    11·
    6 days ago

    Lack of available test tissue might be slowing down drug approvals, but the main reason we don’t see cures is that drug companies don’t want to sell cures, they want to sell chronic treatments. If you cure a person you have a customer on Tuesday. Treat their condition and you have a customer for life. Drug companies aren’t motivated to produce cures any more than Nike is motivated to sell each person exactly one pair of shoes. This is a very good reason why public health should be publicly funded and publicly distributed. When medicine is an expense instead of a profit center, we’ll start curing diseases instead of maintaining them.

  • hedhoncho@lemm.eeEnglish
    6·
    6 days ago

    Pretty sure there’s a million scifis about humanoids that feel human pain. That hommonculous is old enough to scream if it had a mouth.

  • Modern_medicine_isnt@lemmy.worldEnglish
    5·
    6 days ago

    Oddly, without the neural component it would be worthless for nearly all drug testing. And since they don’t really understand how things like the gut are almost like a second brain, the lack of a neural component will really hamper most things.

    • Maeve@kbin.earth
      1·
      3 days ago

      Not to mention spontaneous sentience. We’re so smart we’re dumber than dirt.

  • RangerJosey@lemmy.mlEnglish
    3·
    6 days ago

    The problem is that corpses are big business. As horrible as that is.

    You’re as likely to end up being a crash test dummy for some MIC bomb R&D as you are to be used by a medical student when you “give your body to science”

  • hedhoncho@lemm.eeEnglish
    3·
    6 days ago

    Didn’t we want to clone ourselves in case we needed a kidney some years back?