Similarly, synthetic biology involves designing and creating new biological substances, such as new genes, proteins, new organs, or even a whole organism.
Organ failure is often the cause of death, and since I have heart disease running in my family, I'm a big believer in replacing organs--either with 3D printing of new organs or with robotic ones.
Today some 40,000 patients receive new organs each year worldwide.
But success breeds demand: as more patients get new organs, more patients want them.
But recipients of such new organs have to pay a price.
New organs are also outfitted with computerized switching systems that can transpose, record and play back music.
Researchers said the cells could be used as tissue transplants, or even as a source to grow whole new organs.
In many plants, new organs are produced sequentially through early life, each of progressively more mature form.
So Mrs. Johnson, a 68-year-old retired teacher in California, joined 80,000 Americans on a waiting list for new organs.
Transplant recipients are not only weak already, they must also take drugs to suppress their immune systems and prevent their bodies from rejecting the new organs.
Down the road for all are new studies, new machines, new enzymes, new organs, new genes and new drugs upon drugs, all with new side effects.
