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Grow Your Own Heart Valves

Posted by samzenpus on from the congen-circulatory-sphincters dept.

jcr writes "Medical researchers in Britain have succeeded in growing a heart valve from adult stem cells taken from bone marrow. The research is being reported in the journal of the Royal Society today. Growing a heart value from your own cells means that tissue rejection isn't an issue."

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  1. Preventing Rejection by pscottdv · · Score: 5, Funny

    Growing a heart value from your own cells means that tissue rejection isn't an issue

    What slashdotters need is a way to grow a girlfriend from their own cells.

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    1. Re:Preventing Rejection by Applekid · · Score: 2, Funny

      If you have sex with your own clone, is that still incest? Masturbation perhaps?
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  2. That's nothing! by aadvancedGIR · · Score: 3, Funny

    Real geeks build their own pacemaker.

  3. New Valve? by Double+Entendre · · Score: 2, Funny

    I'm open to it.

    Too soon?

  4. Being reported in theJournal of the Royal Society? by jimicus · · Score: 4, Funny

    If it's being reported in a proper journal, do we have a link to the journal itself rather than something from the Daily Hysteria?

    The Daily Mail is famous for blowing medical reports out of all proportion - they "cure cancer" an average of 2 or 3 times a year.

  5. OEM parts by thejuggler · · Score: 3, Funny

    I guess this means that we are now using OEM parts instead of third-party knock-offs.

  6. Been there, done that by marol · · Score: 3, Funny

    I grew my own heart valve once.

  7. Re:php by Cervantes · · Score: 2, Funny

    ...and should've been aborted while your parents had the chance. Ironically, that may have helped further embryonic stem cell research...
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