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Turning Skin Cells Into Heart Cells

Posted by michael on Friday February 23, 2001 @01:56AM from the bandaids-for-your-mitral-valve dept.

Salsaman writes "The company which cloned Dolly the sheep has now apparently succeeded in turning cow skin cells into heart cells."

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Still a long way to go by destine · 2001-02-23 05:16 · Score: 2

Its quite interesting that they can get sample tissue to differentiate. This has lots of uses, but its still a long way till we can see donor organs available. This will still be useful for the cultivation of single tissue grafts and such, but its a long way from creating an organ. Just because you can differentiate to one type of tissue doesn't mean you can create liver for example. Still, this is great advancement in genetics and is one step closer to us understanding how all this stuff works. The next ten years are going to be amazing for biotech.