Once again, technology finds a way to thwart, circumvent and otherwise make obsolete Mother Nature.
While paranoids do have real enemies, perhaps Luddites had a point!
From the article:
Nearly 50,000 people in the United States die each year waiting for a donor heart.
"This is an ingenious step towards solving a massive problem," Dr. Tim Chico of Britain's University of Sheffield said in a statement. "This study is very preliminary, but it does show that stem cells can regrow in the 'skeleton' of a donor heart."
(Let me rephrase: "This is a monstrous step, a synthesis of Mother Nature and man's tinkering. Just because we "can" do something doesn't mean we should.")
Perhaps health "advances" ought to be like a balanced budget...Each life saving technique must be matched by double the number of fewer children born...(anyone's ideas on how to achieve this, I'm all ears!)
