Thursday, November 20, 2008

bioengineering

1. Why bother waiting for transplant organs when you can just grow your own* in less than a week?

* I realize the techniques and technology is in its infancy compared to what we would like to imagine, but this is an offshoot of crazy tissue engineering researach.  A functional bionengineered trachea is a first step - a good first step - towards high technology medical care that we envision in scifi books and movies.

2. Sometime bionengineering goes wrong.  You end up with a bionengineered freakish dictator on an alien world.  Throw in convicted prisoners, a kidnapping and quest for redemption and you've got a script.  Even better if you can wrap it into a space western...

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