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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. Let me the the first... by Anonymous Coward · · Score: -1, Redundant

    to welcome our circulatory robust but dentally challenged ex-colonial overlords...

  2. mod dPown by Anonymous Coward · · Score: -1, Redundant

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