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Hybrid hearts could solve transplant shortage
New Scientist ^
| June 03 2009
| Andy Coghlan
Posted on 06/20/2009 2:23:03 PM PDT by grey_whiskers
"IT'S amazing, absolutely beautiful," says Doris Taylor, describing the latest addition to an array of tiny thumping hearts that sit in her lab, hooked up to an artificial blood supply.
The rat hearts beat just as if there were inside a live animal, but even more remarkable is how each one has been made: by coating the stripped-down "scaffolding" of one rat's heart with tissue grown from another rat's stem cells.
Taylor, a stem cell scientist at the University of Minnesota in Minneapolis, now wants to repeat the achievement on a much larger scale, by "decellularising" hearts, livers and other organs taken either from human cadavers or from larger animals such as pigs, and coating them in stem cells harvested from people.
(Excerpt) Read more at newscientist.com ...
TOPICS: Health/Medicine; Science; Society; Weird Stuff
KEYWORDS: heartresearch; medicine; organtransplants; stemcells; univofminnesota
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As Michael Ledeen might say of the Middle East, "Faster, please."
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posted on
06/20/2009 2:24:12 PM PDT
by
grey_whiskers
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To: grey_whiskers
ObamaCare will put a stop to this sort of thing.
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06/20/2009 2:30:33 PM PDT
by
Argus
(We've gone downtown to Clown Town, and that's where we'll be living from now on..)
To: grey_whiskers
Lends new meaning to ‘organ harvesting’ don’tchaknow.
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06/20/2009 2:31:07 PM PDT
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MHGinTN
(Believing they cannot be deceived, they cannot be convinced when they are deceived.)
To: grey_whiskers
The article says they can’t make it work properly. They can only make it look like the proper organ.
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posted on
06/20/2009 3:01:33 PM PDT
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mamelukesabre
(Si Vis Pacem Para Bellum (If you want peace prepare for war))
To: mamelukesabre
That's what I meant by "faster, please."
Cheers!
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posted on
06/20/2009 3:16:10 PM PDT
by
grey_whiskers
(The opinions are solely those of the author and are subject to change without notice.)
To: grey_whiskers
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posted on
06/20/2009 3:38:24 PM PDT
by
neverdem
(Xin loi minh oi)
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regenerative medicine ping - think of scaffold cultures not tissue cultures, but how did they supply the blood?
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posted on
06/20/2009 4:38:18 PM PDT
by
neverdem
(Xin loi minh oi)
To: neverdem
To: grey_whiskers
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06/22/2009 6:16:47 AM PDT
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sitetest
(If Roe is not overturned, no unborn child will ever be protected in law.)
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