Headless human clones to make organs? Well another method is nearly here: scientists have grown an entire kidney from a pig inside a mouse (it was perfectly in proportion and very small).

Video on the future of biotech - growing organs on headless humans.

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Dr Patrick Dixon
Dr Patrick Dixon MBE

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  1. Shamrock ·

    The ethics of gene manipulationThis is the most concentrated distillation of the smear between the disciplines. This is where science and religion must be responsible to each other and interdependent. One cannot run away without the other.

  2. eileen ·

    i am awesome