Imagine this: an adult human body, which is on a table. He is not alive, he never had ‘life’. But it has all the organists that work, except the brain. It is not sensitive; You can never feel pain or pleasure, it is “Experientialy White.” A completely cultivated zombie in laboratory, produced for scientific experiments, including drug tests.
Welcome to the emerging world of ‘Bodyoids’.
Now that I think about it, if you can cultivate organs in a chip, why not an entire human body?
Scientists are investigating developing bodyoids: they are not there yet, but on their way.
They are using pluripotent voice cells, which are the earliest cells that form and give rise to any other type of cell in the body. From pluripotent voice cells to real embryos, it is nothing more than a jump, just like the embryo to the fetus. After all, they also have artificial uterus technology to help.
Then, in the near future, a biotechnology company can produce the human bodies that medical students can dissect and study, pharmaceutical companies can inject with drugs and evaluate their effect, avoiding putting mice and primates through the misery of drug tests.
Some can find the idea of exciting bodyoids, other disturbing, raising ethical questions.
Writing at Mit Technology Review, Carsten T Charlesworth, postdoctoral fellow at the Institute of Biology of Voice and Regenerative Medicine Biology, is all for it. He says that it is even possible to build animal bodyoides to, for example, work in agricultural fields, replace sensitive animals. Charlesworth advocates caution, but emphasizes that “the opportunity is too important to ignore.”
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Posted on April 20, 2025