Hopes of custom-built organs as scientists create beating heart

Hopes of custom-built organs as scientists create beating heart

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SCIENTISTS have created a beating heart in the laboratory in a breakthrough that could allow doctors one day to make a range of organs for transplant almost from scratch.
The procedure involved stripping all the existing cells from a dead heart so that only the protein “skeleton” that created its shape was left.
Then the skeleton was seeded with live “progenitor” cells, which multiplied and grew back over it, eventually linking together into a new organ. Such cells are involved in the formative stages of specialised types of tissue such as those found in the heart.

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Here we are. Custom organs to be built for any person who needs them...if you have insurance or a ton of cash. So there will be the haves that will like to 150 and the have nots that will die by 80.

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And here is another link related to the above article - written by the AP and posted on MSNBC.
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