Synthetic Organs: would you use them?

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Human 'Mini Hearts' Made in Lab (and They Beat)

This image shows the heart-like “microchamber” that the researchers created from human induced pluripotent stem cells.

Living "mini hearts" — structures that resemble tiny, primitive, beating hearts — can be created from human stem cells, researchers say.

These miniature heartlike structures could help scientists test heart drugs for safety, and learn more about how the heart develops in order to help prevent defects, investigators added.

"It might even be possible to grow pieces of heart to serve as patches during heart surgery, but that's a long way off," study co-senior author Dr. Bruce Conklin, a physician and stem cell biologist at the Gladstone Institute of Cardiovascular Disease in San Francisco, told Live Science. Researchers could also use these structures as models for fixing damaged hearts, he said.
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So how about it, would you use a synthetic organ?

 

[The Doctor]

If my body needed a replacement organ and the technology was reliable, absolutely. There are far too few transplantable organs and too many people who need them.