The real Frankenstein's lab: Scientists want to grow 'spare' human BODIES - and claim they could 'revolutionize medicine'

A Frankenstein's lab for growing'spare' human bodies sounds like something ripped straight from an episode of Black Mirror. But scientists really want to make this gruesome concept a reality. In an article published in the MIT Technology Review, three Stanford University scientists argue that so-called'bodyoids' could'revolutionise' medicine. Bodyoids would be physiologically identical to a normal human but engineered not to have consciousness or experience pain, they write. The researchers argue that modern medical science is being held back by a severe shortage of'ethically sourced human bodies'.