I see everything like this potential through what the lady at Geron told me when I expressed frustration at delays in the clinical trails for their anti-cancer drug:
Average time for approval of new methods or medications is 14 years !! .
That is, of course, NIH and other federal bureaucracies intervening in health care “to protect us” … and their Civil Service asses.
I shudder to contemplate our medical care after the Feds take over even more.
Bill

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On Dec 16, 2009, at 9:34 AM, Pat Kelley wrote:

The advances keep coming. This company http://www.organovo.com/index.php in collaboration with an Australian firm has created a bioprinter that can print arteries (technology should be available to the medical community in five years or less), and is on a path to print complex organs like the heart, liver, or kidney within ten years. The day of people dying waiting for a donor organ, or lPativing with antirejection medication for the rest of their lives may be coming to a close.

We live in exciting times. The question will be who can benefit from this technology if the Govt. takes over health care.

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