Engineers Implant Vascularized 3D Muscles

An anonymous reader writes "A big hurdle to creating "replacement parts" for the human body is the lack of an internal, nourishing blood system in engineered tissues. Using a stem cell "cocktail," researchers say they've now overcome that, and successfully implanted engineered muscles in lab animals. Next stop, genuine implantable pecs?"

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Downsides...

[RootsLINUX]

Now I'm even *less* motivated to exercise than before, which I thought was impossible. Maybe I could get really strong leg muscles implanted (like those of a cheetah) and then I wouldn't need to be stuck in traffic for 30-60 minutes a day. I'd just run to work at 60+ MPH!!! Abusing technology is what American's do best after all.... >_>

Hail your new leader

[Anonymous Coward]

I for one welcome our new bio-engineered overlords.

To the wealthy go the spoils

[sithsasquatch]

I'm sure it will take a while, but when it is a commercially viable procedure, this stuff will probably cost insane amounts of money.

This leads to an obvious problem: If the rich and powerful are also physically stronger than us, how are we gonna overthrow them?
Seriously, muscles harnessed for long toil under the blazing sun won't be able to compete with these cyborg implants!

We must act now, before the muscles are implanted, and before the damn upper class becomes impervious to our insurrection. To arms, comrades!

Viva la revolucion!