The wife is stoked: researchers at the University of Minnesota have engineered a bioartificial heart. That's right. The era of organ farming is at hand, and for those of us with Gordian masses of writhing vipers instead instead of hearts, this is great news!
By using a process called "whole organ decellularization" scientists have proven beyond all doubt that they should never be allowed to speak in anything but maths and advanced programming languages. But, ridiculous grammar aside, this process is nothing short of astonishing. The anti-stem cell folks should be placated by now, simply because this looks so much like a miracle that Yahweh has to have had a hand in it. Yahweh or Dr. Frank-N-Furter, it isn't clear.
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