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The title is misleading; what was achieved here was the repopulation of decellularized mouse hearts with human cells, which is very different from building a fu
by jcfrei 13y ago
The title is misleading; what was achieved here was the repopulation of decellularized mouse hearts with human cells, which is very different from building a fully-functional mouse heart.
- ekianjo 13y agoThat's io9 and "they come from the future" so they know better than you :) io9 is just another science tabloid, I would not trust what they write too much in the first place. I doubt most of their writers have any academic knowledge of Science, but I could be wrong.
- wikiburner 13y agoIt's actually not that misleading when you consider that that's the technique scientists have been trying to make work for humans all along. They use a solution to strip the donor heart of all of it's cells, leaving only the scaffolding, and then re-seed it with the recipients own cells: http://singularityhub.com/2009/06/23/stem-cells-used-to-grow-hearts-cool-new-pics-and-vid/ http://singularityhub.com/2009/06/23/stem-cells-used-to-grow...