On Feb 1, 3:04 pm, Robert Clark <rgregorycl...@[EMAIL PROTECTED]
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> On Jan 14, 6:16 pm, Robert Clark <rgregorycl...@[EMAIL PROTECTED]
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> > The quest to use stem cells to replace damaged organs is progressing
> > even faster than I thought:
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> > Scientists grow rat heart in the lab.
> > Experiment could lead to new treatments for cardiovascular disease.
> > Video.
> > updated 2:46 p.m. ET, Mon., Jan. 14,
2008http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/22635550/
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> > Team Creates Rat Heart Using Cells of Baby Rats.
> > By LAWRENCE K. ALTMAN
> > Published: January 14,
2008http://www.nytimes.com/2008/01/14/health/14heart.html?ref=us
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> > The New York Times article says the method would be expected in
> > humans to create a beating heart within months, though it doesn't say
> > if this would be adult sized or not.
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> > Also, not mentioned in these articles is whether the researchers
> > technique was successful in their experiments on pig hearts, of
> > similar size to human hearts. But in a TV interview, one of the
> > scientists involved said it was.
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> Finnish patient gets new jaw from own stem cells.
> By Sami Torma 56 minutes ago
> HELSINKI (Reuters) - "Scientists in Finland said they had replaced a
> 65-year-old patient's upper jaw with a bone transplant cultivated from
> stem cells isolated from his own fatty tissue and grown inside his
> abdomen."
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> "Using a patient's own stem cells provides a tailor-made transplant
> that the body should not reject.
> "Suuronen and her colleagues -- the project was run jointly with the
> Helsinki University Central Hospital -- isolated stem cells from the
> patient's fat and grew them for two weeks in a specially formulated
> nutritious soup that included the patient's own blood serum.
> "In this case they identified and pulled out cells called mesenchymal
> stem cells -- immature cells than can give rise to bone, muscle or
> blood vessels.
> "When they had enough cells to work with, they attached them to a
> scaffold made out of a calcium phosphate biomaterial and then put it
> inside the patient's abdomen to grow for nine months. The cells turned
> into a variety of tissues and even produced blood vessels, the
> researchers said.
> "The block was later transplanted into the patient's head and
> connected to the skull bone using screws and microsurgery to connect
> arteries and veins to the vessels of the
neck."http://news.yahoo.com/s/nm/20080201/ts_nm/finland_stemcells_dc
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> Bob Clark
Another interesting article:
April, 2008
Regrowing Limbs: Can People Regenerate Body Parts?
Progress on the road to regenerating major body parts, salamander-
style, could transform the treatment of amputations and major wounds.
By Ken Muneoka, Manjong Han and David M. Gardiner.
http://www.sciam.com/article.cfm?id=regrowing-human-limbs
Bob Clark
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