Organ Growth

[pnasty]

This is kinda cool, especially if they can start growing other organs as well.


http://www.cnn.com/2006/HEALTH/conditions/04/03/engineered.organs/index.html

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[jonathon]

This is kinda cool, especially if they can start growing other organs as well.

I noticed this news article today as well. However, after reading it and seeing that there is no publication reference I denounced it (I'm not saying it's not done but I wond go further into details about the work). If there would have been a journal article to reference to I would look further into the work. However, since there is no article reference, a person can't read up on the work and check for flaws in the study design, ethical concerns and so forth.

 

[emtp6811]

Check out the Science magazine that came out two fridays ago. There was an article in there about using your own tissue cells to grow a healthy organ. Specific examples included growing Beta cells to stimulate insulin production in your pancreas, heart cells to grow a replacement heart valve, etc. The experimentation has only been done with mice thus far, but there have been no ill effects, or even fading effects after I think 60 or 90 days. You'll have to read it.