Cloned Organs from the Deceased Key to Sudden Death

Cloning can pass on the genetics of diseases but it has the potential to solve answers to questions that can haunt the mind after the wake of a tragedy in which in part may be speculation to what happened when someone dies suddenly and unexpectedly.

An autopsy might be able to answer the question for some people but not everyone and not everyone who suddenly falls over dead is autopsied. For the people who die of sudden death there is usually an organ in question that may have been at fault. To find the cause of death the organ in question could be cloned and studied.

The possibility to clone an organ for the answer to a cause of death isn't beyond science capabilities. Stem cell research and manipulation has grown organs. A hurdle that might have to be jumped to grow questionable organs has to do with time. Cells from the organ will have to be harvested while they are still alive. Four minutes is typically the time a brain is able to survive before brain damage occurs but even though the brain is deteriorating and dying around this time the other organs of the body will die in their own time. This is why when someone dies some of his or her organs can still be harvested hours later.

Another potential problem is that the harvest of cells from an organ after the person has died may put toxins into the cells that can distort the genetics to grow an organ or make the perception of the disease in the cloned organ unreadable causing an inconclusive answer.

A third problem is once the cloned organ is grown keeping it alive to study in a humane way without using an animal host. Organic chemicals close to the adaptation of a natural body could be sought so the organ can live in a fluid atmosphere. The organic chemical fluid solution may have an influence on the outcome of the organ, which could distort the disease.

Why would it be better to clone an organ instead of study single cells from the questionable organ?

One cell could hold the answer to a disease but one cell could change and take an opposite path then its fated fellow cells. The merge of multiple cells from a questionable organ into a clone can show the organ and its workings as a whole. The whole may be able to distinguish a path that caused the destruction of the organ. In essence it would be similar to cloning the fault that led to organ failure.