[extropy-chat] CLONE: Seeking contacts for organ cloning

[Mike Lorrey]

As many of you know, my mother has had a rather rough year with a
botched gastro bypass operation. Her current condition is that she has
4' of small intestine, 1/3 of her original colon, with a colostomy bag,
and requires 24 hour care. She is also developing an increasing
encephalopathy condition that is likely tied to the lack of intestines
providing insufficient nutrition for her brain, despite supplements and
thrice daily injections of protien nutrient mix through a G tube into
the lower stapled off area of her stomach.
Her mental condition is spotty memory, a lack of ability to maintain a
consistent train of thought, language problems in selecting the wrong
words, lethargy, depression, phantom pain in her gut (like amputees
experience), and when her electrolytes get off she hallucinates living
in a different house with a different family, her dead father, among
other things.
I am increasingly of the opinion that she is going to need an
intestinal transplant to regain her ability to digest sufficient
nutrition, possibly get her intestine cloned. Can anyone point to
researchers working in this area, such as those growing cloned organs
in pigs or in a dish, etc.???

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Mike Lorrey
"Live Free or Die, Death is not the Worst of Evils."
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                                       - Mike Lorrey
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