Comment of the Day: Next Make Artificial Organs Affordable

A practical comment on the new trachea transplant

We noted today that the first fully lab-grown organ, a trachea, has been transplanted. This is really exciting stuff, and jdinbalt celebrates it, while recalling that there are two aspects to medical advances: actual advance, and making it practical.

This makes me happy. Here's the future of organ transplants!  Now let's see if anyone will be able to afford it...

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