Recent advances in biotechnology now provide a pathway to producing living human bodies without the neural components that allow us to think, be aware, or feel pain.

Oh no, they've discovered how to make lab-grown Republicans!

I’m sure that’ll go great with capitalism

Wtf is this crap from? We have too many bodies donated for science. So much that we can't use them all a few years back.

Good for med students though. Never short on corpses to practice on! Fr. Some students got kicked from uni for desecrating a corpse. They took out the intestines, made a lassoo from it and tried to swing it around.

Lack of available test tissue might be slowing down drug approvals, but the main reason we don't see cures is that drug companies don't want to sell cures, they want to sell chronic treatments. If you cure a person you have a customer on Tuesday. Treat their condition and you have a customer for life. Drug companies aren't motivated to produce cures any more than Nike is motivated to sell each person exactly one pair of shoes. This is a very good reason why public health should be publicly funded and publicly distributed. When medicine is an expense instead of a profit center, we'll start curing diseases instead of maintaining them.

I believe Larry Niven wrote about this very concept.

If I recall, it seems that while nice in theory, capitalism and less ethical folks become a problem quickly. To be fair though, the same can be said if pretty much any industry.

The Island awaits you...

i seem to recall a scarlett johansson/ewan mcgregor movie about this

"Grown without the nueral components for awareness, thought or pain"

Somehow I doubt that

Sorry but until capitalism is gone this is just crazy stupid.

Oddly, without the neural component it would be worthless for nearly all drug testing. And since they don't really understand how things like the gut are almost like a second brain, the lack of a neural component will really hamper most things.

Pretty sure there’s a million scifis about humanoids that feel human pain. That hommonculous is old enough to scream if it had a mouth.

yum, ethical long pork and organs.

BABE WAKE UP HOMUNCULI JUST DROPPED

"Ethically sourced." Uh huh.

It's not ethics that brought us in our current situation, but the lack of it.

Image a greenhouse where they grow human feet, whole legs, loose eyes and a bunch of hearts next to another greenhouse where they grow arms that wave as you walk past, their fingernails perfectly groomed. You see a bunch of scalps with a youthful head of hair next to some carefully protected brains. Perfect teeth growing row after row. And as you look around you realise how happy people will be with the spare body parts you're growing, and feel a deep form of gratitude your father got you in this new industry because thanks to him you are a rich man with a big house and a big car and a perfect wife.

The problem is that corpses are big business. As horrible as that is.

You're as likely to end up being a crash test dummy for some MIC bomb R&D as you are to be used by a medical student when you "give your body to science"

ask me again why i want to be cremated.

so cloning people.

Been saying this ever since I heard of lab-grown meat. Why would you wait for kidney donation when your own DNA can be used to grow a healthy kidney for transplant.

Didn’t we want to clone ourselves in case we needed a kidney some years back?