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  • Hearts from cadavers beat anew: study

    01/13/2008 5:01:05 PM PST · by USFRIENDINVICTORIA · 12 replies · 149+ views
    AFP -- on Yahoo News ^ | Sun Jan 13, 2008 | Not Named
    PARIS (AFP) - In experiments that would make Dr. Frankenstein jealous, US scientists have coaxed recycled hearts taken from animal cadavers into beating in the laboratory after reseeding them with live cells, according to a study released Sunday. If extended to humans, the procedure could provide an almost limitless supply of hearts, and possibly other organs, to millions of terminally ill people waiting helplessly for a new lease on life. Approximately 50,000 patients in the United States alone die every year for lack of a donor heart, and some 22 million people worldwide are living with the threat of heart...