Scientists Turn Skin Cells Into Beating Heart Muscle

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Scientists Turn Skin Cells Into Beating Heart Muscle

Posted by samzenpus on Wednesday May 23, 2012 @12:04PM from the grow-your-own-organs dept.

An anonymous reader writes "By taking skin cells and turning them into stem cells, a technique that is already well known, researchers at Technion Israel Institute of Technology were able to generate beating heart cells — a medical first. 'We have shown that it's possible to take skin cells from an elderly patient with advanced heart failure and end up with his own beating cells in a laboratory dish that are healthy and young — the equivalent to the stage of his heart cells when he was just born,' Lior Gepstein, study author and professor of medicine said."

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Re:WHAT WHITE PEOPLE ARE HIDING! by Nidi62 · 2012-05-23 12:18 · Score: 1, Funny

Can we bring back the my clean pc guy? At least his spam posts are shorter and more entertaining to read.

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Re:A question for the bio geeks.. by cvtan · 2012-05-23 12:29 · Score: 4, Funny

That means you could literally make a politician out of a horses ass!

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Re:More of this, please by Spiked_Three · 2012-05-23 12:52 · Score: 4, Funny

My head is ugly. I want all new please.

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Re:Where's George Bush? by Spiked_Three · 2012-05-23 12:53 · Score: 4, Funny

they cloned him as Mitt Romney and he is on the way, patience.

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Re:More of this, please by Adriax · 2012-05-23 13:36 · Score: 4, Funny

The toggle for the host computer's perception speed had better resemble a 386SX-16 turbo button or I wouldn't even bother.

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Re:WHAT WHITE PEOPLE ARE HIDING! by slashchuck · 2012-05-23 13:50 · Score: 3, Funny

Slashdot should reduce the font size of the Troll/Flamebait postings. It will cut down on the disk space used.

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Re:More of this, please by Lynchenstein · 2012-05-23 16:55 · Score: 3, Funny

If they could clone and replace "certain" organs with, oh, say, perhaps, LARGER versions, they could pay for all future research with the proceeds of this technique.

Of course *I* don't need this, but I'm sure *others* might...
Re:More of this, please by K.+S.+Kyosuke · 2012-05-23 21:11 · Score: 3, Funny

The toggle for the host computer's perception speed had better resemble a 386SX-16 turbo button or I wouldn't even bother.
Yes, but if you're already inside the computer, how do you press the button?

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Re:A question for the bio geeks.. by ThatsNotPudding · 2012-05-23 23:51 · Score: 3, Funny

Unless you wear string bikinis, most folks have plenty of skin that never sees the sun.
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Re:So it only goes to follow... by tomhuxley · 2012-05-24 00:34 · Score: 3, Funny

Finally a real use for Segways!