Scientists use adult skin cells to regenerate functional human heart tissue

Re:Scientists use adult skin cells to regenerate functional ... by ChuckMcM on Sunday March 20, 2016 @11:17PM (#11325987)

And to add to this, if you can take a cadaver heart, strip it to the scaffolding, and then using a plurpotent stem cell line from your own cells to convert that structure into a functional heart, which can then be transplanted into you without risk of rejection, well that would be pretty much a game changer for all those people dying from congestive heart failure.

Tissue engineering has come a long way. The possibility of building a replacement organ this way is pretty interesting to contemplate in terms of changing peoples lives.

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Re:Scientists use adult skin cells to regenerate functional ... by Roritharr on Monday March 21, 2016 @06:51AM (#11327231)

On a Nova Science Now episode they were also talking about using animal organs for their scaffolding.

There is lots of developments like this that looked pretty amazing, 5 years go when i first saw it, why isn't there an easy way to keep track of things like this?

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Re:Scientists use adult skin cells to regenerate functional ... by Luisvel on Monday March 21, 2016 @08:46AM (#11327657)

You can use Google alerts and follow the topic.

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