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Researchers Create Beating Heart In Lab

Posted by kdawson on from the keeps-on-ticking dept.

Sunday Scientist writes "Minnesota researchers have created a beating heart in the laboratory. In a process called whole organ decellularization, they grew functioning heart tissue by using dead rat and pig hearts as a sort of flesh matrix, and reseeding them with a mixture of live cells. The goal is to grow replacement parts, using their own stem cells, for people born with defective tickers or experiencing heart failure."

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  1. Tag this eddiemurphy by Anonymous Coward · · Score: -1, Troll

    Anyone else instantly reminded of the clip for "Closer", by Nine Inch Nails?

    Actually, I was reminded of this Eddie Murphy classic:

    Well, step aside my friend
    I've been doing it for years
    I say, sit on down, open your eyes
    And open up your ears

    Say
    Put a tree in your butt
    Put a bumblebee in your butt
    Put a clock in your butt
    Put a big rock in your butt
    Put some fleas in your butt
    Start to sneeze in your butt
    Put a tin can in your butt
    Put a little tiny man in your butt
    Put a light in your butt
    Make it bright in your butt
    Put a TV in your butt
    Put me in your butt
    Everybody say

    [CHORUS]

    I, hey, that's, man, I ain't putting no trees in nobody's butt,
    no bees in nobody's butt, putting nothing--
    You must be out your mind, man,
    y'all get paid for doing this?
    Cause y'all gotta get some kind of money
    Cause this don't sound like the kind of--
    I'd rather golf, to be perfectly honest,
    than put somethin in somebody's butt
    to be truthful

    Well step aside my friend and let me
    show you how you do it
    When big bad E just rock rock to it

    Put a metal case in your butt
    Put her face in your butt
    Put a frown in your butt
    Put a clown in your butt
    Sit on down in your butt
    Put a boat in your butt
    Put a moat in your butt
    Put a mink coat in your butt
    Put everything in your butt
    Just start to sing about your butt
    Feels real good
  2. FP stands for FUDGEPACK by Anonymous Coward · · Score: -1, Troll

    CmdrTaco is a negro fudgepacker. Wait, that ain't right. HE LIKES TO TAKE IT! FROM LITTLE BOYS!

      B-B-Bad to the B-B-Bone!

  3. Re:fp by Anonymous Coward · · Score: -1, Troll

    eat shit, baby brains

  4. Re:Are you sure about that? by Anonymous Coward · · Score: -1, Troll

    And your mother is a flabby-cunted whore. Tell me, when you came out of her rancid, steaming womb, did your needle-dick scrape against her pus-filled vaginal walls? Did the pus fly into your eye, causing the severe mental retardation that you now evince?

    Or maybe you are just one of those IT faggots who think that they deserve $80,000 per year for doing something anybody with an IQ over eighty-five can learn to do.

    Here's a tip, genius: stick an andiron up your AIDS-infested urethra and swish it around in your fucking bladder, you goddamned lunatic.

    There, I said it. Now go lick your dad's brown-eye. Oh wait, I forgot, he's dead because I raped him and tore his artery and he sprayed HIV-blood all over your ugly fucking face. Oh well, necrophilia is kind of your bag, isn't it?

    I am SO ANGRY AT YOU!!!

  5. KDAWSON is a fudgepacker! by Anonymous Coward · · Score: -1, Troll

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