Something good from Minnesota

[RedjackRyan]

Besides Dave and WFF that is..


Minnesota researchers have created a beating heart in the laboratory (http://www.scienceblog.com/cms/researchers-create-beating-heart-lab-15218.html). In a process called whole organ decellularization, they grew functioning heart tissue by using dead rat and pig hearts as a sort of flesh matrix, and reseeding them with a mixture of live cells. The goal is to grow replacement parts, using their own stem cells, for people born with defective tickers or experiencing heart failure."

[Wildflower Fever]

Besides Dave and WFF that is..


Minnesota researchers have created a beating heart in the laboratory (http://www.scienceblog.com/cms/researchers-create-beating-heart-lab-15218.html). In a process called whole organ decellularization, they grew functioning heart tissue by using dead rat and pig hearts as a sort of flesh matrix, and reseeding them with a mixture of live cells. The goal is to grow replacement parts, using their own stem cells, for people born with defective tickers or experiencing heart failure."

Well, you got Mike Tomlin, too!;) The University of Minnesota has always been big on heart issues, but my vote is always with The Mayo Clinic in Rochester, MN to advance stem cell research. I guess you could say this is a bit of a medical state, Medtronic is in my back yard as well. I think this is a good development as long as we get people in power who agree to fully fund stem cell research. This shows that you can "recycle" tissue, and rebuild the tissue using the implantees DNA. The possibilities abound, maybe I can keep smoking, and they'll just grow me a new rat lung, right?;) Nah, I've still got to quit, but way to go, U of M!!!:)

[DaveM]

There was a great headline in today's Duluth newspaper: "Scientists Grow Beating Heart In A Jar". Left me expecting something utterly Frankensteinian until I read the article.

I suspect that growing new organs using a person's own DNA, basically permitting "autotransplantation" will come to pass before long. Beyond that, with any luck they'll be able to go one step further and regrow a damaged organ without removing it.

[hoops]

very :cool:
peace
hoops

[Eva]

"Scientists Grow Beating Heart In A Jar". Left me expecting something utterly Frankensteinian until I read the article.
The jar is the thing that couldn't be left out, I guess...
I can just imagine it sitting somewhere in someone's kitchencabinet next to the jars of jam and applesauce :D

Eva

[DaveM]

Same here.....open the pantry door, and....thump-thump, thump-thump, thump-thump....

[Eva]

Same here.....open the pantry door, and....thump-thump, thump-thump, thump-thump....
LOL :D
But what if you're not looking well and pull the wrong one out to put on your sandwich? :eek:

Eva

[hoops]

i think ya might stop and look when ya feel the thing thumpin in your hand... so you put it back and grab the peanut butter.
peace
hoops

[Eva]

And then these guests comes over and you offer them something to eat. "What do you have?" they ask. You pull open the cabinet and say: "Ehm... sandwichspread, peanutbutter, tunasalad, beating heart..." :rolleyes:

Eva