Scientists discovered that removing specific molecules from developing mice can completely reverse their sex from male to female.
Scientists discovered that removing specific molecules from developing mice can completely reverse their sex from male to female.
Like, growing a female clone of parts of your body, and then implanting organs from it into your body? That’s creative. I dunno, good question.
I don’t know whether immune rejection of cloned organs is an issue or not. I guess it’d be comparable to implanting an organ from an identical twin.
kagis
Sounds like that’s possible, at least in terms of immune response.
https://www.verywellhealth.com/understanding-and-preventing-organ-transplant-rejection-4147557
thinks
I think that a problem you’d have with anything that has a lot of sensory input and output is that you’d have to regrow nerves. My understanding is that in cases of something like spinal cord damage, an issue is that scarring prevents nerves from reconnecting correctly – suppressing scar formation is something that had to happen when trying to deal with spinal cord issues. I’ve also got no idea what the constraints are on wiring things up correctly, but I imagine that there are some.
kagis
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nerve_injury
So even with one’s own body parts, nerve regeneration apparently isn’t going to be perfect, but we can have some degree of it.
I was thinking about this as a basis. https://www.cnn.com/2022/06/01/health/ghost-heart-life-itself-wellness/index.html I know from my bottom surgery nerve reconnection was not guaranteed but I felt them reconnect over the weeks after.