To scan the body, to put small robots inside the body, to sell parts of the boy as it were parts of an automobile - what's next, then, asks Andrew Kimbrell, the director of the Foundation on Economic Trends:

More and more, Americans are selling their very selves: their blood, semen, ova, even their newborns. And more and more, researchers and corporations are markting human “products” including organs, fetus parts, tissues, cell lines, biochemicals, and genes... The escalating price placed on our most intimate possessions has created a boom market in the human body. (5)

From all the different kinds of scientific researches connected with the human body being made in our days, genetic engineering and cloning are the more discused among the people of the developed countries. The human dream of obtain immortality is no longer impossible, some scientists sustain. (continua »»)