Important Takeaways:

• CUTTING-EDGE scientists have unveiled a disturbing plan to grow soulless “spare” human bodies that can be used for medical experiments and even meat.
• The so-called bodyoids would be grown in artificial wombs and have the eerie ability to withstand endless pain.
• The scientists, Carsten T Charlesworth, Henry T Greely, and Hiromitsu Nakauchi, made their bizarre pitch in MIT Technology Review and explained why the Frankenstein-esque plan would revolutionize medicine.
• They said the zombie-ish bodies would be key to testing out new medicines and growing human organs for transplants.
• The plan would become a reality by using pluripotent stem cells, one of the earliest cell types to form during human development.
• The stem cells have already been used to grow organic matter and, most recently, helped to successfully create a structure that resembles a human embryo.
• Researchers hope to grow the fetuses entirely outside a body in artificial uteruses, which are already being tested in labs.
• They plan on using “genetic techniques” to stunt brain production and ensure the body lacks sentience.
• Once they’re grown, the bodies “could address many ethical problems in modern medicine, offering ways to avoid unnecessary pain and suffering,” wrote the scientists.
• One of those issues, according to the brazen scientists, is sourcing “ethical meat.”
• They pointed out how medical researchers have been primarily relying on animals for testing, which isn’t always directly transferable to human treatments.
• Plus, the testing potentially tortures the creatures as they’re sentient and feel pain.
• According to the researchers, endless drugs are constantly being tested, but very few of them get cleared for safe use on people.

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