The Body Bank: A Skin-Care Company Builds a Futuristic Facility to Stockpile Human Tissue

After reading this article, I couldn't overlook the fact that it had an eerie resemblance to the movie "The Island". For example, here are some parts of the article :

Dermacia, has developed technology that it claims will give donors an unprecedented degree of control over their cells. Dermacia, through its subsidiary company National Genecular Institute (NGI), recently sealed a deal with the University of Iowa to create a $76-million "biobank" called BioTrust and other research laboratories. NGI will use the bank's samples for developing its own products but will also sell samples to researchers worldwide. The company hopes that its 100-acre, partially underground facility, due to open in 2009, will be a model for future biobanks

Plans include a fully automated storage and retrieval system coordinated by a small army of robotic arms. The machines will inscribe bar codes onto samples, spin them in centrifuges, transfer them into vials, transform them into immortal cell lines that grow and divide indefinitely, and file them away in massive computerized freezers.

Donors will be asked to log onto a Web site to update their medical information, which will be linked to their tissue sample through a code number.

Basically, the movie depicts the same scenario, but in actuality the "products" are real human clones derived from DNA, donated by clients. The clones are literally grown in massive computerized storage areas and housed in an underground facility, until they are ready to be harvested for their precious organs and body tissues.

ultimately, how unreal it might seem, this is a disturbing fact, that we must face in the quest for technological and medical advancements, but along the way should we sacrifice ethics and morals for the greater good?

Please feel free to leave some feedback... Thanks !