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U process restores dead hearts
pioneer press ^
| 1-13-08
| jermey olson
Posted on 01/13/2008 8:26:18 PM PST by WOBBLY BOB
Researchers at the University of Minnesota have turned a "crazy idea" into a potential breakthrough. They removed the lifeblood from a heart - leaving behind a ghostly white shell - then injected new cardiac cells, bringing the organ back from the dead.
The federal government wouldn't fund the idea: Grant reviewers said it was implausible. Medical journals wouldn't publish the initial results: Editors doubted them. But Sunday's study in the prestigious Nature Medicine journal is long-awaited validation for the researchers and a promising direction in organ transplantation and the fight against heart disease.
(Excerpt) Read more at twincities.com ...
TOPICS: Culture/Society; News/Current Events; US: Minnesota
KEYWORDS: dead; heart; hearts; uofm
To: WOBBLY BOB
I read about this on another thread (couldn’t find it). They stripped the heart down to the protein frame. Then they used Adult Stem cells and the heart “came back to life.”
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posted on
01/13/2008 8:31:08 PM PST
by
Grizzled Bear
("Does not play well with others.")
To: Grizzled Bear
But my wife got the insurance already. What do you mean she has to give it back.
Mary....I'm home. Oh...Hi Fred..Whatsup...Never mind...
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posted on
01/13/2008 8:38:02 PM PST
by
Sacajaweau
("The Cracker" will be renamed "The Crapper")
To: WOBBLY BOB
That’s amazing and the possible uses nearly limitless.
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posted on
01/13/2008 8:41:33 PM PST
by
papasmurf
(I'm voting for FRed, even if I have to write him in.)
To: WOBBLY BOB
Will it grow hair?
No reason...just asking....
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posted on
01/13/2008 9:23:25 PM PST
by
mad puppy
(I'd rather live a day on my feet than a year on my knees)
To: WOBBLY BOB
WOW!
I had a heart attack about a year ago, so I really appreciate news like this! Thanks.
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posted on
01/13/2008 9:31:02 PM PST
by
aquila48
To: WOBBLY BOB
By cleaning out hearts coming from human donors or even pigs, doctors could rebuild them with each patient's own cells, making transplants more tolerable. At least, that's the plan. I'm hoping for pig hearts myself. Imagine if there were large numbers of people implanted with pig hearts. It would scare Mulim homicide bombers whose remains would mix with pig parts.
To: aquila48
Everyone in my family has heart attacks or heart issues, so I’ll probably need it sooner or later, too.
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posted on
01/14/2008 9:42:24 AM PST
by
WOBBLY BOB
(I think I'll buy everyone a carbon credit for Christmas.)
To: WOBBLY BOB
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posted on
01/14/2008 9:43:35 AM PST
by
sitetest
(If Roe is not overturned, no unborn child will ever be protected in law.)
To: WOBBLY BOB
That's good news.
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posted on
01/14/2008 9:45:25 AM PST
by
OB1kNOb
(Support Duncan Hunter for the 2008 GOP presidential nominee. He is THE true conservative candidate.)
To: WOBBLY BOB
It...It’s Alive, Master! It’s Alive!
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posted on
01/14/2008 2:48:32 PM PST
by
wildbill
To: WOBBLY BOB
They have regrown the heart of a rat and the rat came back to life. I agree with Savage.
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posted on
01/14/2008 2:50:13 PM PST
by
RightWhale
(Dean Koonz is good, but my favorite authors are Dun and Bradstreet)
To: WOBBLY BOB
(Crocodile Dundee, singing in the tub ...)
If I give my heart to you
I'll have none and you'll have two ...
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posted on
01/14/2008 2:53:14 PM PST
by
MHGinTN
(Believing they cannot be deceived, they cannot be convinced when they are deceived.)
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