This seems to be a major breakthrough for
adult stem cell research. Potentially it will lead to a near-limtless supply of organs for transplant -- with non of the rejection complications.
The stem cells are amazing -- put them on something that looks like a heart, and they decide to become heart cells.
To: USFRIENDINVICTORIA
"the Minnesota researchers have also successfully applied the technique to pig hearts..."I would anticipate the price of scrapple futures to be tumbling in Lancaster..
2 posted on
01/13/2008 5:09:17 PM PST by
billorites
(freepo ergo sum)
To: USFRIENDINVICTORIA
"all the cells from an organ -- in this case the heart of a dead rat -- are stripped away using powerful detergents, leaving only a bleached-white scaffolding..."Which then proceeds to become the Junior Senator from New York...
3 posted on
01/13/2008 5:11:38 PM PST by
billorites
(freepo ergo sum)
little farts giving new life to old farts
To: USFRIENDINVICTORIA
6 posted on
01/13/2008 5:23:59 PM PST by
ichabod1
("Self defense is not only our right, it is our duty." President Ronald Reagan)
To: USFRIENDINVICTORIA
Now I know what Dr. Herbert West has been doing.
12 posted on
01/13/2008 6:27:25 PM PST by
Slings and Arrows
("Those who surrender personal liberty for lower global temperatures will receive neither."--weegee)
To: USFRIENDINVICTORIA
If extended to humans, the procedure could provide an almost limitless supply of hearts, and possibly other organs,My brain will live forever
(Perish the thought...)
13 posted on
01/13/2008 6:41:54 PM PST by
sionnsar
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