Organ Transplants with no Rejection

[linda1lee2]

http://chenected.aiche.org/biological-engineering/replacing-body-parts-on-pbss-nova-series/ shows how scientists have been able to strip cells from cadaver donor organs. This leaves a translucent protein scaffold that they can use to grow the patient's cells on, thus causing no rejection. The organs became alive! The heart was beating and the lungs were breathing on their own outside any body!

http://www.time.com/time/health/article/0,8599,1860566,00.html has the story of Spanish lady who got a trachea transplant and doesn't need immunosuppressive drugs.

So our Brave New World will not have to wait for donors and you can replace worn-out body parts. And rather than voice training and current voice surgery, we could replace our male larynx with a female one!

[V M]

Now if they could perfect and apply this to transplant sexual organs for SRS also 

This also makes for a good argument for cloning the usable donor parts so there is a steady supply of needed organs available for transplant

Then people that need the donor organs wouldn't have to sit around waiting for a matching donor to die... Plus a single donor would be able to help several people

[pebbles]

Now if they could perfect and apply this to transplant sexual organs for SRS also 

This also makes for a good argument for cloning the usable donor parts so there is a steady supply of needed organs available for transplant

Then people that need the donor organs wouldn't have to sit around waiting for a matching donor to die... Plus a single donor would be able to help several people

While this would ease the demand for organs what's more likley to occur eventually is we find a way to make Animal ECM non-antigenic then you basically take "humanized" pigs (humanized in the form of immunogenticity not nervous tissue) take the cells of it and replace it with cells taken from the patient.

Providing an unlimited supply of both scaffolds and tissue.

Using these for trans people would be very extreme.