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What happened to washing the cells from the underlying collagen structure and using that as a scaffold? Roughly ten years ago I saw a Nova Science Now episode
by Roritharr 7y ago
What happened to washing the cells from the underlying collagen structure and using that as a scaffold?
Roughly ten years ago I saw a Nova Science Now episode on this and it looked rather workable, so what's the state of that?
- Roritharr 7y agoI found a video of the episode: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jLs8DeHVkec https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jLs8DeHVkec around the 7 minute mark there is a pumping heart that was grown ontop of such a scaffold.
- Roritharr 7y agoOh wow, the woman in the video had to undergo a lung amputation in 2016, and everything shown in the video seems to be the culmination of a crazy amount of unscientific experimentation on a patient: > Macchiarini admitted that one year after the operation Claudia had to be repeatedly saved with a stent in her airways, a method which worked so badly for her before. Macchiarini and his team also claimed in 2014 to have been watching over his patient “every 3 months”. >It was however too late. In July 2016, Claudia underwent a lung amputation. Luckily, she was Macchiarini’s only trachea transplant patient in Barcelona, a second operation was stopped due to technical formalities. Here is the full, horrifying article. https://forbetterscience.com/2016/11/02/claudias-trachea/ https://forbetterscience.com/2016/11/02/claudias-trachea/