• kristina [she/her]
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    3 years ago

    also you should probably get over the hangup... its not unlikely that this tech will open up huge inroads for personalized medical science. think of the possibilities: you take a blood sample from a cancer patient and then you grow an organ based on their real dna. you can transplant a new organ in, or even more likely, test drugs on the organ to determine the efficacy against a particular kind of cancer. repeat and cancer as a riddle has become much easier to solve.

    the possibilities are really endless for this sort of thing and will be crucial for treating many diseases and extending human life. cultured meat as a biproduct is just another way to contribute to the research.

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    also they could make fat cells pretty easy and give me big ol fat tiddies