Re:Mushrooms: Next big thing in environmentally-friendly pac...
by elasticventures on Saturday March 05, 2022 @02:39AM
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ooh, yes plz.
i'll take a large order of both motor & memory neurons plz. could i get them without surgery?
i think the delivery mechanism for stem cell tech is sufficiently complex that it is reserved only for explicitly necessary procedures and regrettably by present day medical definitions that is 'urgently life threatening' so the idea of growing another kidney or whatever, unlikely. besides, it'll probably be easier to grow meat kidneys outside the body and then surgically implant them.
Backstory when I was on design team for UCSF... I met a gene designer who built a system of being able to funnel genes to stem cells in a method of allowing said genes to express based on what prteins exposed to...
The idea being "ne may produce X gene to stem cell, and thus may determine how this stem cell will express"
Meaning :what do we feed a stem cell as far as proteins are concerned, in order to make these stem cell express as [kidney] or - [insert-organ-cell-type-here]