Scientists Use Stem Cells To Regenerate the External Layer of a Human Heart

[DEAD7]

A team of scientists from Massachusetts General Hospital and Harvard Medical School have used adult skin cells to regenerate functional human heart tissue. The study, published in the journal Circulation Research, detailed that the team took adult skin cells, using a technique called messenger RNA to turn them into pluripotent stem cells, before inducing them to become two different types of cardiac cells. Then for two weeks they infused the hearts with a nutrient solution, allowing them to develop under the same circumstances a heart would grow inside a human body. After the two week period, the hearts contained well-structured tissue, which appeared similar to that contained in developing human hearts. When shocked with electricity, they started beating. This represents the closest that medical researchers have come to growing an entire beating human heart.

Scientists can now grow a beating human heart from stem cells

 

[Guess Who]

Dope.

 

[无名的]

Do people still care about usage of stem cells? I feel like that was a thing before that I don't hear about now.

 

[ExodusNirvana]

Do people still care about usage of stem cells? I feel like that was a thing before that I don't hear about now.

If I'm not mistaken it was the religious right that was in an uproar about using fetal tissue in stem cell research

 

[Anerdyblackguy]

Amazing! !

 

[Saiyajin]

If I'm not mistaken it was the religious right that was in an uproar about using fetal tissue in stem cell research

they can use skin cells to make stem cells now so its not even an issue thankfully

 

[TheAnointedOne]

theres alot of groundbreaking scientific shyt that most people don't know about