The hoops we make researchers go through to find ways to solve human problems- the ones that politicians (and religious kooks) impose to block valid modalities to improve our lives.
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Stem Cells to the Rescue?
Yes, Japan allows stem cell research- the research that can’t be effected by most Americans. The US government has forbidden one scintilla of such research to be performed, if the institution receives even one penny of US funding. Which means that American scientists cannot use their ingenuity to produce the artificial organs that would result if they could. But, the research about which I am reporting today is actually legal under US law.
Maybe, now?
Y’all must know that nephrology has a special place in my heart and psyche. For some reason, I decided that an artificial kidney should be something I would develop (beginning at the age of 8). And, for more than 1/3 of my years on this earth, at least 1/3 of my time (as measured in 24 hour cycles) was devoted to dialysis, renal treatment, and the various associated maladies and physiological ramifications to kidney functions.