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

[J Corbally]

Very sorry to hear of your Mum's troubles, Mike.  I seem to remember you 
mentioning her on your blogsite, didn't realize it was to this extent.  I 
know what it's like to watch a parent go through such difficulties, I hope 
things improve for her.

As for research, I'm afraid I'm a dead end, really sorry.  My understanding 
is that the intestine is a pretty uniform organ along its length, so it 
sounds like a good candidate for stem cell growth on a polymer scaffold as 
they do with arteries.  Perhaps by growing several sections simultaneously 
to acheive long length very quickly, joining them as they grow.

Please pardon my musings, I hope someone else here can point to some 
positive WIP.




James...


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>Message: 20
>Date: Mon, 5 Jan 2004 10:28:28 -0800 (PST)
> >From: Mike Lorrey <mlorrey at yahoo.com>
>Subject: [extropy-chat] CLONE: Seeking contacts for organ cloning
>To: ExI chat list <extropy-chat at lists.extropy.org>
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>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.???
>=====
>Mike Lorrey
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