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Scientists Turn Skin Cells Into Beating Heart Muscle

Posted by samzenpus on 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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  1. Re:A question for the bio geeks.. by cvtan · · Score: 4, Funny

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

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  2. Re:More of this, please by Spiked_Three · · Score: 4, Funny

    My head is ugly. I want all new please.

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  3. Re:Where's George Bush? by Spiked_Three · · Score: 4, Funny

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

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  4. Re:More of this, please by Adriax · · 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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