Persuasive Essay On Kidneys

In the US, everyday 22 people die waiting on the transplant list. Every 10 minutes another person is added to the transplant waiting list. As of 2015, 122, 071 people where on the transplant list and out of all those people only 30,973 got a transplant (U.S. Department of Health and Human Services). More people are dying waiting for transplants than there are receiving transplants. People all over the world are looking for ways we can fabricate organs that can be used for transplants. There have been multiple studies done on diverse organs such as kidneys, pancreases, and anal sphincters.

The scientists of Wake Forest School of Medicine have produced an anal sphincter. A sphincter is a ring-like muscle that maintains constriction of a body

Typically if the kidney goes into failure people have two options: 1. Wait on a transplant list 2. Have doctors purify the blood that passes through the kidney, otherwise know as dialysis. In the UK alone more than 6,000 people wait for a kidney, within a year, less than half will receive a new kidney. More than 350 people die a year waiting for a transplant (Roberts). Scientists all over the world have been trying to make kidneys. In the past ten years Australia has done many studies on making kidneys. They used stem cells to generate a kidney grown in a lab. However, it’s been very hard to do this because the scientists have to find an exact combination of genes that correctly trigger the iPS (pluripotent stems cells) to making a kidney. They constructed many kidneys but they could never preform the functions an adult kidney. After trying different amalgamations the scientists from Australia finally found a combination that created a kidney that functioned like an infant kidney. The kidney was able to filter toxins from blood, however, it’s not advanced to preform more complicated tasks a kidney can do (Stein). Another group of studies done in Tokyo used stem cells as well to produce a kidney. Once they made a kidney they put it in a rat to see if it would work. After checking on the rats they realized that there was a problem with the kidney, it kept swelling up or as they call it: ballooning. So they came up with the idea that they

First, both the book and growing organs grow things. In the book Brave New World the World State is growing people in test tubes, and in the real world people are growing organs. Another thing they have in common is that they both deiced to dabble with DNA. In Brave New World they tweak the DNA of embryos to make different types of people such as, Alphas, Betas, Deltas, Gammas, and Epsilons. They control how intelligent each group of people is by controlling how much oxygen they get when they are in the tubes. In the world to day we can do something similar. We have the ability of altering the DNA so people wont get certain type of disease or so they wont age as fast or even letting a parent chose what their kid would look like. However, we have never tested this on humans. Brave New World and growing organs can relate in the way that they both alter DNA and grow humans and organs instead of letting them grow in