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by echelon 1183 days ago
Start cloning some animal thymuses and bone marrow. Fill the cultures with immune cells.
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Just testing the viability of that one sentence would be a decade long research project for a large, well funded lab - and it would definitely not work as described.

Cell culture is hard, immune systems are incredibly complex. Bone marrow cells are very hard to culture, relative to other cells - we literally figured out how last year, just about, for one of the cell types in bone marrow niches. The collection of complex cell types in bone marrow and are only one component in a functional immune system.