Organovo Holdings, Inc. (ONVO)

[morley480]

Oh yes. You are not the only one saying that. I agree.

I first heard of ONVO on a famous long-running Canadian CBC Nature and Science TV documentary series called "The Nature of Things", with Dr. David Suzuki (geneticist and environmentalist).

He visited an ONVO university lab in the U.S., where indeed he and the university lab scientist were discussing exactly that option - the ability to order replacement parts for the human body in the future through ONVO.

I was so struck by the fact that a serious Canadian scientist and documentary-maker would mention a commercial public American start-up company, that I immediately investigated ONVO. Suzuki is not a flighty or commercial kind of guy.

Have had most of my joints replaced already (working on the last ones), so my friends and family already call me the "bionic woman", but if I needed a new heart, kidney or liver........another matter altogether.

I wonder if a single-payer system like we have in Canada would help the development of game-changing medical developments like ONVO is working on. Might be cheaper to give all us "baby-boomers" new hearts, rather than look after us for years in long-term care. And the open-heart surgery required might be faster, easier and cheaper than what is done now, and more long-term effective, with better outcomes and fewer complications.