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1/16/08

Heart created in lab

Someday may be u will find that the heart that is beating inside u is taken from PIG!!!!
clipped from edition.cnn.com

New hope may lie in lab-created heart

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ATLANTA, Georgia (CNN) -- Creating a replacement heart for some of the sickest patients may be one step closer, if new research in rats pans out in humans.

Rather than building a heart from scratch, which has often been mentioned as possible use for stem cells, this procedure takes a heart and breaks it down to the outermost shell. It's similar to taking a house and gutting it, then rebuilding everything inside. In the human version, the patient's own cells would be used.

Heart transplants are the last resort for end-stage heart disease, but there aren't enough organs to go around. Video Watch more in rebuilding a heart in a lab »

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