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While checking my email I came across an article about a lab at the University of Minnesota that has grown an artificial heart. Creepy, I know, and after reading the article all I could think was how Frankenstein it seems. All in all it's an amazing achievement but slightly disturbing how that the concept of prolonging a person's life by replacing their organs might not be as big of a leap as we previously thought. Honestly, if science made it possible for people to live forever by growing new organs to replace the failing onces I think that there are people out there who would jump at the chance to have it done to them. Me...I don't know if I would do it. Definitely if a vital organ was failing due to a congenital defect and I wasn't done doing what I needed to do before seeing the pearly gates. Just for fun? I don't think so.
Science is a wonderful and sometimes scary thing. Life can be created (in a sense) and then destroyed (quite literally). Which brings me to then question the feasibility of using animals and sometimes humans for research. But it's been a really long day for me to go into that. Plus...I did write a 13 pg paper about the ethics of using animals in scientific research.
Science is a wonderful and sometimes scary thing. Life can be created (in a sense) and then destroyed (quite literally). Which brings me to then question the feasibility of using animals and sometimes humans for research. But it's been a really long day for me to go into that. Plus...I did write a 13 pg paper about the ethics of using animals in scientific research.