so who is to say , rowan , that we have to shove it in a plastic trash bag when we know that through keeping this tiny body alive , and keeping others like it alive - these little gold mines of unique tissue , so flexible , adaptable , so unlike any other human tissue , swarming with countless tiny extraneous cells which would eventually have been discarded in the normal fetal process - we can make discoveries in the field of neurological transplants that make shelley 's frankenstein read like a bedtime story . '