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In tissue engineering, we've seen pioneering work on the growing new structures (e.g. new ears) for human beings who have lost the original structures due to disease, disorder, or injury. It involves the creation of a scaffold made mostly of collagen, which is then seeded with lots of cells that grow and reproduce until a functional organ is complete and ready to be attached to the natural body.
https://www.newsweek.com/tissue-surgeon-ear-mouse-human-organs-transplant-cell-phones-666082
https://www.livescience.com/46971-techniques-creating-organs-lab.html
https://www.eurekalert.org/pub_rele...trol of precise architecture and organization.
My question is: Within the next 1000 years, if civilization and hence science can keep going for that long, and in light of what we know about tissue engineering, could entire humanoid creatures be biofabricated in adult form, rather than gestated as naturally occurring, cloned, or transgenic humans would have to be?
https://www.newsweek.com/tissue-surgeon-ear-mouse-human-organs-transplant-cell-phones-666082
https://www.livescience.com/46971-techniques-creating-organs-lab.html
https://www.eurekalert.org/pub_rele...trol of precise architecture and organization.
My question is: Within the next 1000 years, if civilization and hence science can keep going for that long, and in light of what we know about tissue engineering, could entire humanoid creatures be biofabricated in adult form, rather than gestated as naturally occurring, cloned, or transgenic humans would have to be?