By Forrest McFarland
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…
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