Scientists create stable, self renewing Neurons!

[Nitro]

It makes me woder about where technology is going. If we're now able to make real organs, and ones as important as the brain, what will we do if a terrorist or something gets ahold of it? What will they do?

[KopsTheTerminator]

Osama Bin Laden will ressurect, and then-- OCRAP

@Lilac: Yeah you do have a point, I suppose that's good.. But I'm still not sure about this. I suppose we'll have to wait and see.

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[quote="Nitro"]It makes me woder about where technology is going. If we're now able to make real organs, and ones as important as the brain, what will we do if a terrorist or something gets ahold of it? What will they do?[/quote]

This is not really making an organ though, to make it a bit clearer a neuron is a nerve cell which when they get damaged is what causes things such as blindness and disabilities, all that sort of stuff you know mental illnesses. So these ones are able to replace themselves when they get damaged or be used to replace broken ones. So imagine that with these, one would go blind and then a week or so later, the cells reproduce and the person starts to get their eye sight back.
That is my understanding of it anyway so it would be a pointless thing for terrorists to want. Or for anyone outside of the medical and cellular research fields for the matter.

Nah I doubt they will ever make proper reproducing / artificial organs if that is what you were getting at. People have to be able to die, for reasons that I wont get into here XD