Thank you Proud_Kafir for yet another story reminding us all how important the products and values of western civilization are. It isn’t just that we can do this. It is that our value set makes us want to do this. While some cultures are busy finding ways to hide explosives within human tissue in order to kill, maim, and terrorize as many people as possiible, and in order to impose those values which require that on the survivors, the enlightenment marches on with more real-world mircales to alliviate suffering and enhance life.
Thank you again PK
THE great hope of transplant surgeons is that they will, one day, be able to order replacement body parts on demand. At the moment, a patient may wait months, sometimes years, for an organ from a suitable donor. During that time his condition may worsen. He may even die. The ability to make organs as they are needed would not only relieve suffering but also save lives. And that possibility may be closer with the arrival of the first commercial 3D bio-printer for manufacturing human tissue and organs.
The new machine, which costs around $200,000, has been developed by Organovo, a company in San Diego that specialises in regenerative medicine, and Invetech, an engineering and automation firm in Melbourne, Australia. One of Organovo’s founders, Gabor Forgacs of the University of Missouri, developed the prototype on which the new 3D bio-printer is based. The first production models will soon be delivered to research groups which, like Dr Forgacs’s, are studying ways to produce tissue and organs for repair and replacement. At present much of this work is done by hand or by adapting existing instruments and devices.
To start with, only simple tissues, such as skin, muscle and short stretches of blood vessels, will be made, says Keith Murphy, Organovo’s chief executive, and these will be for research purposes. Mr Murphy says, however, that the company expects that within five years, once clinical trials are complete, the printers will produce blood vessels for use as grafts in bypass surgery. With more research it should be possible to produce bigger, more complex body parts. Because the machines have the ability to make branched tubes, the technology could, for example, be used to create the networks of blood vessels needed to sustain larger printed organs, like kidneys, livers and hearts.
Vlad! It might not be a bad idea to come up with a western technological invention or a cultural invention every two weaks. In order to reveal the contrast between our culture and the Islamic one.
I often think about the uniqueness of Western art, in all of its forms, as something that truly sets our civilization apart from the rest. From the great masters of the Renaissance to the development of musical notation, from classical music to awesome artists of rock and pop… Could any of this could have evolved anywhere but in the West? Most likely not, and certainly not under mahoundianism. In the case of black artists in particular, it’s extremely scary to think that, when we consider mahoundianism’s inherent racism against people of color, artists like Louis Armstrong, Miles Davis, Jimi Hendrix, Otis Redding, Aretha Franklin would never have been anything but a bunch of raisin heads and pug-nosed slaves in a world ruled by inbred bedouin savagery from Arabia.
As far as sciences and the arts are concerned, I suppose that thinking about what would never have been created or developed if the military, scientific, cultural and technological superiority of the West hadn’t been able to stop mahoundian territorial conquests can be quite useful in terms of putting in perspective what we stand to lose if our present efforts to re-defeat those barbarians fail. Not to mention that that would be quite useful in making the case for our side of the fight for those who still don’t understand what’s at stake and are yet to choose a side.