if thats your platform for election to King of the World, I'll vote for you.
we can only partially simulate some of the amazing and complex functions of the various organs. if it weren't for hemodialysis simulating the function of the kidney, I'd be a corpse, two years cold. its not perfect by any means but it keeps me alive and relatively healthy. As much as I get 'oh woe is me' sometimes, I feel for guys that need Livers.. Liver guys don't have a machine to help them, their race against time is measured in months not years.
in the US there are 80,000 people on 'the List'.. 16 of us die each day waiting.
(sorry all for the massive thread hijack!)