Stem cells were grown and then connected to brass plates.

  • Quilotoa@lemmy.caOP
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    15 hours ago

    We’ll never know until it starts multiplying rapidly and breaks out of the lab.

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      5 hours ago

      Henrietta Lacks hasn’t managed it yet. Look her up. It’s at least as bad as this if not more so.

      “Yet” being the operative word here. There’s a disease in dogs that started in some very similar circumstances (although happening in nature rather than from a science accident). One slip-up from an immunocompromised tech with just the right genetic make-up and it begins.