Back in 1998, Robin Cook released CHROMOSOME 6, a medical thriller that touched on organ creation and harvesting. A very interesting concept at the time. Seems that now such fiction is approaching reality as a group of Japanese scientists are working on a system for creating “chimeric embryos” within animal wombs. The hope is that this will provide organs for human transplants. In medicine, a chimera is an organism, human or animal, that has two or more genetically distinct cell lines.
Reality imitating art? This will no doubt be interesting and controversial as it moves forward.
