Mary Roach

And there's this elevator that can lift like 26 tons.

And there's pig facial recognition.

And it's just kind of an amazing thing.

So having a conversation with Xiaoping Dong.

Anyway, I was having a conversation with him.

And I said, this is, you know, right now we're talking about

trying to get one organ in one person to last six months.

But I was like, what's this going to be like?

We're going to have like 26-story piggeries that are like churning out organs.

They're going to be for organs.

And he goes, yes, that is the future.

You know, he was very enthusiastic.

But then, you know, I...

The other side of that is I spent some time at a stem cell biotech company, and I was like, well, how far in the future where we can grow from scratch, just grow organs?

He's like, that's science fiction right now.

So the other thing is that things are changing so fast that the future that you would have predicted two years ago has changed direction.

You know, there's ways now where you can take somebody say blood cells and regress them to pluripotency where they're kind of like that.

They've got the potential to become anything and you can instruct them to become a different kind of cell.

And the hope is that one day we could grow whole organs.

But right now, you know, you're just talking about clusters and patches, you know, you could create some dopamine producing neuron cells that would help someone with Parkinson's, but creating a whole organ.