Team Creates Rat Heart Using Cells of Baby Rats

Filed under:Technology — posted by 3wire on 1/14/2008 @ 11:15 am

From: Accelerating-Intelligence News

University of Minnesota researchers created a beating rat heart in a laboratory by using the valves and outer structure of a dead rat’s heart as scaffolding for new heart cells injected from newborn rats.

Scientists should be able to grow a human heart by taking stem cells from a patient’s bone marrow and placing them in a cadaver heart prepared as a scaffold.

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