Working on Making New Organs Available as Needed

There are three principal problems with the current state of organ transplantation, from which all of the other well-known issues arise. Firstly the existing regulatory systems surrounding organ donation actively discourage donors by both restricting possible compensation and making the process far slower and more baroque than it has to be. This is often the case wherever bureaucrats and politicians become involved in medical matters: a donor really has to work hard as well as suffer surgery in order to give an organ, and there will be nothing but thanks for it. There is little fairness and little incentive to found. For all that it gets most of the attention, this isn't really the important issue, however: it is a symptom. The medical community only makes an effort to reuse organs because of the second problem, the vital and central problem, which is that we do not yet have the biotechnologies needed to manufacture replacement organs to order, from scratch, reliably and safely, and at a mass-market price. The third problem is that it requires major surgery with a significant risk of death and serious complications in order to transplant an organ. No-one really wants major surgery if they can possibly avoid it, and the risks escalate considerably in later life, at the time when you are most likely to actually need a replacement organ. Thus the ultimate goal of regenerative medicine and tissue engineering is most likely to regrow and repair existing organs in situ in the body...
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