The researchers took dead animal hearts and stripped them of everything except the blood vessels, valves and connective tissue. These scaffolds were then seeded with cells from newborn and foetal rat hearts and, after four days of growth, the organs started to contract. Within eight days, the hearts were beating.
Sunday, January 13, 2008
What an age we live in
Researchers grow a beating heart from stem cells. No, really.
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