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What would be the implications if the process of culturing cells is domesticated for public consumption, where the user is able to culture tissue cells on demand whenever their body needs to repair itself?

 

Every 30 seconds a person dies from diseases that could be treated with tissue replacement. Regenerative medicine and advances in tissue engineering and molecular biology are working towards the restoration or replacement of failing organ systems by growing and culturing human tissue cells outside of the body onto an (vascular) organ scaffold, simulating life. What ethical and emotional challenges will we face with the development of such technology? What would be the implications if the process of culturing cells is domesticated for public consumption, where the user is able to culture tissue cells on demand whenever their body needs to repair itself? What happens once we are able to mass-produce (domesticate) artificial life? What will happen to humans if we managed to slow down the human body aging process, by replacing aging/worn out tissue cells with younger ones?