Imagine that you, like Austin Powers, were cryogenically frozen in 1967, only to be thawed out today. Now, imagine how little you would even begin to comprehend a news item like the following:

Scientists in Finland said they had replaced a 65-year-old patient’s upper jaw with a bone transplant cultivated from stem cells isolated from his own fatty tissue and grown inside his abdomen.

Which brings to mind…..markets in organ surrogates, anyone?

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