Dying Organs Restored to Life in Novel Experiments

https://www.wral.com ^ | 7-9-18 | Gina Kolata

[Enterprise]

Early one Saturday morning in March 2015, the hospital got a call from a hospital in Maine. Doctors there wanted to transfer to Boston Children’s a newborn baby boy whose heart had been deprived of oxygen during surgery to fix a congenital defect.

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He injected 1 billion mitochondria, in about a quarter of a teaspoon of fluid.

Within two days, the baby had a normal heart, strong and beating quickly. “It was amazing,” Emani said.

[Enterprise]

I bypassed the lead paragraphs and went to what I believed to be the most explanatory section. Basically, doctors will be able to save a lot of babies who have had heart attacks or heart defects, and maybe the technique will someday be good for adults. Prayers for all involved.

[neverevergiveup]

Thanks for posting. This is a very novel and very cool approach. Very much outside the box, and makes conceptual sense. Essentially ‘replacing the batteries’.

[Slyfox]

It would be great if they tried this procedure on people with subdural hematomas.

[Noamie]

I concepted this in 1984. As a first grader during science time.

(Where’s mah check.)

[Boomer]

I wonder if it could fix the mental defect leftists have in their brains. Inject it right through the eye socket or nasal passages.

[spetznaz]

Interesting and great.

[ATOMIC_PUNK]

The poems of Edgar allan poe /Vincent Price

[Salamander]

Or TBIs.

[elbook]

not sure how this process works.

Mitochondria are ‘organelles’ located INSIDE of cells, and cell you would think would not easily ‘accept inside’ foreign structures like this.

A clue might be that some theories say that some organelles like mitochondria (which have a loop of their own DNA) were once separate simple organisms which more complex cells absorbed into themslves over a billion years ago.

[Rappini]

Not to sound heartless but I wonder if that injection could work on skippy.