According to a March 25, 2025 MIT Technology Review Opinion piece, there is a severe shortage of ethically-sourced human bodies for reseach and it’s hindering devlopment of new medical treatments and procedures. The authors cite recent advances in biotechnology that can now provide a pathway to producing living human bodies that do not have neural components that allow thinking, awareness, or feelings of pain.
Many will find this possiblity disturbing, but if researchers and policymakers can find a way to pull these technologies together, scientists may be able to create “spare” bodies, both human and nonhuman.
These bodyoids could revolutionize medical research and drug development, greatly reducing the need for animal testing, people waiting on organ transplant lists, and allowing production of more effective drugs and treatments.
The authors of the Opinion piece say this could occur “without crossing most people’s ethical lines.”
READ MORE (behind paywall) : https://www.technologyreview.com/2025/03/25/1113611/ethically-sourced-spare-human-bodies-could-revolutionize-medicine
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