Thursday, 7 July 2011

One Step Closer to Immortality

"BBC Scientists in London created an artificial windpipe which was then coated in stem cells from the patient. Crucially, the technique does not need a donor, and there is no risk of the organ being rejected. The surgeons stress a windpipe can also be made within days. The 36-year-old cancer patient is doing well a month after the operation."

You're super rich. Your heart starts failing.
No worries, here is a new heart.

Your kidneys give up.
No worries, we'll sort that right out.

 With other advances in anti-ageing technology it looks like immortality may become a reality in the near future.

Long live the tyrants. 

Full article: BBC
Posted by Mikko at 20:49
Labels:

20 comments:

  1. Skinny Guy7 July 2011 at 20:54

    That is crazy! Hopefully we only get better in medical advances.

    ReplyDelete
  2. zemzero7 July 2011 at 22:25

    When Science fiction is no longer fiction.

    ReplyDelete
  3. ScrewsAndFeathers8 July 2011 at 10:45

    Yeah, immortality!
    This is kinda scary, yet fascinating.

    ReplyDelete
  4. Jessica Thompson8 July 2011 at 18:04

    No question about it. Followed!

    ReplyDelete
  5. Funny Pets8 July 2011 at 22:19

    Such a contradiction. So many people are dieing of starvation and lack of water, yet scientists are coming up with ways of keeping people alive.

    ReplyDelete
  6. wellpickedbooger8 July 2011 at 22:41

    There's an episode of Nova where they showed a set of artificially created lungs in a big glass tank breathing - it was probably one of the strangest things I've ever seen.

    Also, you won my Childhood Nostalgia Contest! I've sent an email to your Hotmail listed on your profile. Let me know if you want me to send it to a different email!

    ReplyDelete
  7. braumaman8 July 2011 at 22:48

    Haha, soon it's going to be like Crank 2. Just a brain inside a fish tank displaying text on a monitor.

    ReplyDelete
  8. Jon8 July 2011 at 23:01

    I don't know about immortality but 200+ years is certainly not out of the question for the near future

    ReplyDelete
  9. Scrubby Bear9 July 2011 at 02:04

    truly amazing.

    +follow & bomb

    ReplyDelete
  10. Anonymous9 July 2011 at 06:10

    I may need to live forever to see my Cubs win a World Series.

    ReplyDelete
  11. Anonymous9 July 2011 at 07:55

    This is awesome!!! Crazy things are happening quick ass technology advances! Nice post!

    ReplyDelete
  12. fabio_20079 July 2011 at 11:01

    that's great

    ReplyDelete
  13. netw9 July 2011 at 15:04

    looks like some Philip K Dick's sci-fi novel...

    ReplyDelete
  14. The Onion Gypsy9 July 2011 at 16:32

    very interesting, great post!

    ReplyDelete
  15. Untouchable9 July 2011 at 18:53

    nice post.

    ReplyDelete
  16. tamezisclutch9 July 2011 at 21:07

    Interesting post!

    ReplyDelete
  17. Sam Meyotl9 July 2011 at 21:51

    It would be great!

    ReplyDelete
  18. Scrubby Bear10 July 2011 at 06:07

    very nice post. refresh bomb woould be very nice

    ReplyDelete
  19. Alice11 July 2011 at 08:52

    Hopefully soon they'll be able to regrown an entire body, then all they have to do is plug in your brain~

    ReplyDelete
  20. non-observant11 July 2011 at 15:29

    Wow.

    ReplyDelete

Subscribe to: Post Comments (Atom)