“Each morning it seems we are greeted with yet another headline insisting we won’t believe what “they” are doing in medicine. But we never see the “they”. Tonight, I saw them – creating organs built on bio-scaffolds that someday will live inside a human. When I saw those organs, suspended in place, I touched just under my ribs where my donor’s liver now resides and felt a mystical intimacy – the mystical intimacy of making the future.”