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Chris Rogers
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What’s keeping us from growing organs from stem cells?

If we know how to cause embryonic stem cells to differentiate into different tissue types, and we know how embryonic development turns those tissues into organs, why can’t we yet grow entire human organs from stem cells?

What I’m asking here is specifically what gap in our knowledge currently accounts for this technology not yet being in use.