I anticipate that one exciting breakthrough in biomedicine will be the ability to produce unlimited supplies of transplantable human organs without the need for human donors. This would be done by growing human organs in the bodies of animals; let’s suppose it’s pigs.
When a patient needs a new organ – a kidney, say – the surgeon will contact a commercial organ producer and supply them with the patient’s immunological profile. The producer will already stock a number of pigs carrying kidneys of the right tissue type. These donor organs would be entirely composed of human cells, not just “humanised”…
