Wrong examples guys my bad sorry about that. What i meant to say was that organ donation could be limited and people would not have to wait so long for a transplant. Still the body would have to adjust to it, or not even accpet the new organ (which commonly happens today). I am still wondering if they would have to do any thing special on blood type.

I have no idea about that. Like, tell me more about that.

It is basically taking dead organs and making new ones. It is very complicated to explain. Yet what i think they do is that they take dead cells from the organ, and then they bring them back to life. I do not really know the whole process of what they do, but it is really amazing. After bringing life to the dead cells scientist are able to grow new organs from the recently dead ones. They have only been able to grow a small heart for a rat. They are know making one for a pig. The test have been positive so far, yet they do not know the long term effects.

Greg, that topic reminds me of this. i think someone may have already mentioned what i'm going to say, though. but it could be possible that stem cells could be used to create organs (or clone some from people).

we were discussing it in my human geography class last week and my teacher thought it was actually possible for someone to clone a kidney, for example, and sell it on...ebay ( ) for a patient in need of a kidney transplant. we got on all these weird subjects...even cloning a baby, then, we'd have some problems. lol

GMOs are also an issue; GMOs = genetically modified organisms. an example is BT corn which has had its DNA played around with so it can make its own pesticide. although no proof of this being dangerous has been found, there are controversies over whether or not there may be harmful effects, either now or in the future. any thoughts on this?

and sweetkarrats, i'm so sorry i didn't answer your question. guess i didn't see it, but i'm going to atlanta session 2.

~nina

Noko129: It's ok. I'm sure we're all gonna do that sooner or later.

That is a very interesting thing about the orgnas and stuff..and scary! Lol.

Sweet i have never heard of GMO's i am going to have to look that up, it is really interesting. The only main difference though in organ regeneration and stem cells, is that you do not need a fetus to conduct research. Scientist have been able to determine that cells are able to take Proteins from DNA/RNA to make anything. That is basically what organ regeneration is. I do not know how they do it, but it is really cool.

That is pretty cool. I think I get it better now. Thanks!