Creating viable organs to transplant into ailing patients is a holy grail of stem cell research. (sciencemag.org)
«Without the Bcl - xL gene to tell cells to survive in developing organs, you don't get viable organs,» says Craig Thompson, MD, director of the University of Chicago's Gwen Knapp Center for Lupus and Immunology Research and an investigator in the university's Howard Hughes Medical Institute, who is senior author of the new study. (uchospitals.edu)
He then insists that any attempts to revive myth as a viable organ of belief are doomed to failure: «For we must remember that belief in myth is not a personal attainment alone; it is more, much more so, a social phenomenon and depends for its efficacy on group acceptance and adherence; a private myth, however admirably expressed in whatever form, is therefore an ultimate, irreconcilable contradiction.» (religion-online.org)