They tend to form clumps of tissue while some areas of the matrix is left unpopulated

@Harrybaxter♫♫♩♫‿◦ gene therapy is already there
They have substituted chromosomes in mice via virus that was altered to do that job

Was not the cleanest result, producing a chimera mouse with male and female cells as a result

But it is a definite success so far

Science is awesome

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As an aside: if decellularised transplants will be perfected - people will gain an ability to have any and all organs/limbs being replaced after an injury/illness that destroyed them

No more amputees

No more diabetics

Will it ever be possible to build micro machines the size of brain cells which are capable of copying the function of brain cells?

And if the gene therapy will improve to a level of pefection and failsafe, you can say goodbye to having genetic defects

You could keep your ability to digest milk into the ripe old age

You could cure diabetes without any operative intrusion

You can add new taste buds to the tongue and new light sensors to the eyes to enhance your life

@Xenon First and foremost we need a neuralink.
We kinda have one method nailed down: opthogenetic therapy

Virus installs a code for an intra-cellular-eye and this nerve cell now can react to a specific wavelength of light

Thus you can fetch the fiberoptic cable to those cells with eyes and feed them info

This method is only one-way though
So it is only viable for a hearing aid or possibly restoring vision in blind people

It is a lucky coincidence that fiberoptics are never rejected by our body

My theory is to replace each brain cell one at a time with an individual micro machine. Each one would take over the function of that brain cell as a copy. Replace every brain cell and you effectively transform your brain into a machine without even losing consciousness

I would love to infect my cochlear nerves with this eye-virus and connect an external device to it

A device that would provide me with better hearing, better sense of balance and maybe also a sense of time (add a ticker that will inform me about seconds)

Can we have a chat that has ultrasmurf theme playing at the background?

Also maybe add a magnetometer and gravitometer to that cochlear device too

Because why not feel those too?

@Xenon sounds like a viable idea, but nothing of sorts exists to make it happen yet

Yeah I think it would work if we could build machines that small

Nah you'd start getting degenerative problems

Each one would need to be programmable enough to detect and mimic cell functions

If the machines aren't calibrated perfectly to the neurons they're replacing, your brain will start going crazy.

The chemicals involved with the receptors won't work

Anyone has a good crying emoji?

What if the process was fast?

No

Like an hour or so

Need more crying emoji

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@Ashur Zuk'i-Rash