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Re:Artificial Skin Manufactured In Fully Automated Process by mnemonicsloth on Tuesday May 19, 2009 @03:25PM (#617443)
and spare parts for everybody would be around the corner.

Spare skin, at least. That's not something to just slough off.

Seriously though, it seems to me that growing something like a heart, which has large-scale structure, would be a lot harder than just growing a few different layers of tissue.

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Re:Artificial Skin Manufactured In Fully Automated Process by biohacker42 on Tuesday May 19, 2009 @04:49PM (#617592)
It sure wood be. And growing something like a kidney would be even harder. But if we can mass produce healthy non mutated tissue of any kind, that's a big leap forward.
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