technological improvement- How long will it take?

[deviousxen]

Every time I hear a new thing from the science and medical community about some miraculous thing (like regrowing our organs with stem cells for example.), and they say the projected time it will take for said advances to be possible or maybe even commonplace, I can't help but wonder...

"When will scientists figure out how to grow reproductive organs in a lab? Isn't it only one step further than regrowing a liver or heart or kidney?"

I'm honestly curious about what this community knows, cause for all I know, this stuff could be around when I'm still pretty young in my 20s, or at least when I'm alive. Do you think immediate medical life/death decision organs will delay the growing of "less necessary things" like the penis or vagina, because they aren't taken as seriously or are not "priority"?

Will they be able to alter a previous SRS to be more natural perhaps?
When will they start testing on humans, vs pigs and mice?
And no... I have been thinking these exact thoughts waaaayyy before Ms. Garrison grew a penis on South Park... Haha. Trust me.
etc etc etc.

[Yip]

I think we are on the edge of some marvelous technological changes such as growing organs. I'd say your right the things we are concerned with
may not be more important then new kidneys or hearts but it would still impact all area's. It all filters down eventually and surely what it takes to grow
a heart would not be more complex then other organs. I've always taken some comfort in at least knowing that as time passes, at least the
methods and what could be done can only improve.

[Just Mandy]

I posted this in response to someone asking if it's possible for an MTF to have
a baby. I think it won't happen in our lifetime but a couple of centuries it will.

But I think in two or three hundred years people will look back and think of these
times like we do about the dark ages... unbelievable.

Doctors will be able to implant cells to regrow organs and yes even form
a proper MTF with all the normal female bits. I know it will happen and I'm just
sad we live in these times.

I also think more than likely they will identify the cause of TS and maybe eliminate it
entirely.

Amanda