LoKz Posted January 17, 2008 Share Posted January 17, 2008 New hope may lie in lab-created heartATLANTA, Georgia (CNN) -- Creating a replacement heart for some of the sickest patients may be one step closer, if new research in rats pans out in humans. Researchers at the University of Minnesota were able to create a beating heart using the outer structure of one heart and injecting heart cells from another rat.Their findings are reported in the journal Nature Medicine.Rather than building a heart from scratch, which has often been mentioned as possible use for stem cells, this procedure takes a heart and breaks it down to the outermost shell. It's similar to taking a house and gutting it, then rebuilding everything inside. In the human version, the patient's own cells would be used."We took a rat heart and used soap to wash out the cells of the heart," said Doris Taylor, director of the Center for Cardiovascular Repair, Medtronic Bakken professor of medicine and physiology and lead author of the study.The process is called "decelluarization." To do this, Taylor and her team hung up the heart from a dead rat, introduced a regular soap solution into the top of the organ, and let gravity do the work. The soap moved through the heart's blood vessels, dissolving existing cells, which dropped out of the bottom. This process was repeated until only the outermost casing of the heart was left, resulting in a "white, almost gelatin-looking heart," Taylor explained. This would be the equivalent of the gutted house.The Video...CNN Link click here for more info------------------Sounds like a resident evil thing...------------------ Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
dock98 Posted January 17, 2008 Share Posted January 17, 2008 looks really gross Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Zeus_Hunt Posted January 17, 2008 Share Posted January 17, 2008 looks really grossU wouldnt mind it in case u need it :) Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
LoKz Posted January 18, 2008 Author Share Posted January 18, 2008 yeah its a rats heart.... lol Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
dock98 Posted January 18, 2008 Share Posted January 18, 2008 i know some people that already have one. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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