I, personally, figured that the first cloned organ might be in 6 or 8 years maybe...but it is here now....
and not a single umbilical cord in sight.
now the really important thing that people do not understand this is the stage that is called "amplification".
It is a purely "mechanical as it were" chemical process. Put in a strand of DNA do a couple of magic passes and you got jillions of the same strands of DNA.
http://www.ornl.gov/sci/techresource...rimer/pcr.html
Basically the same process here only with cells.
Please notice the sentence where the word "alive" occurs.
http://www.cnn.com/2011/HEALTH/07/07...ea.transplant/
The real beginning though....harkens back to the 1800s and the synthesis in the laboratory of a "living chemical"....urea.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/W%C3%B6hler_synthesis
woodsmoke
and not a single umbilical cord in sight.
now the really important thing that people do not understand this is the stage that is called "amplification".
It is a purely "mechanical as it were" chemical process. Put in a strand of DNA do a couple of magic passes and you got jillions of the same strands of DNA.
http://www.ornl.gov/sci/techresource...rimer/pcr.html
Basically the same process here only with cells.
Please notice the sentence where the word "alive" occurs.
http://www.cnn.com/2011/HEALTH/07/07...ea.transplant/
The real beginning though....harkens back to the 1800s and the synthesis in the laboratory of a "living chemical"....urea.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/W%C3%B6hler_synthesis
woodsmoke