"Heart Valves Grown From Womb Fluid Cells" This is FANTASTIC!!!

[in_cog_ni_to]

AMAZING! They are now talking about people being able to grow organ parts before they're even born! Babies who die soon after birth usually die from heart defects. This new procedure could save them! The Swiss procedure has another advantage: using cells the fetus sheds in amniotic fluid avoids controversy because it doesn't involve destroying embryos to get stem cells.


Heart Valves Grown From Womb Fluid Cells
By LINDSEY TANNER, AP Medical Writer

CHICAGO - Scientists for the first time have grown human heart valves using stem cells from the fluid that cushions babies in the womb _ offering a revolutionary approach that may be used to repair defective hearts in the future.

The idea is to create these new valves in the lab while the pregnancy progresses and have them ready to implant in a baby with heart defects after it is born.

The Swiss experiment follows recent successes at growing bladders and blood vessels and suggests that people may one day be able to grow their own replacement heart parts _ in some cases, even before they're even born.

It's one of several sci-fi tissue engineering advances that could lead to homegrown heart valves for infants and adults that are more durable and effective than artificial or cadaver valves.<snip>

MUCH MORE at link:

http://www.comcast.net/news/index.jsp?cat=GENERAL&fn=/2006/11/15/521520.html

[WindRavenX]

1. oh noes!!! GOD is gonna be PISSED

:sarcasm:

[in_cog_ni_to]

2. They CANNOT complain about this. They are created from cells

that are shed by the baby while in the womb. How could ANYONE find fault with this new procedure/technology?

[WindRavenX]

3. some have argued that it is "playing God"

And is not for science to tamper with :eyes:

[Tandalayo_Scheisskopf]

4. Don't you fret none.

The fundadelics will find a way.

[in_cog_ni_to]

5. Fine. Then fundies should be banned from benefiting from this new

procedure. We'll see how much they hate it when it's THEIR baby dying from a heart defect.:grr:

[catnhatnh]

6. You FILTHY DISGUSTING PIG!!!!!

Imagine perverting the plan of the LORD GOD ALMIGHTY that would create an area of moistness and instead PERVERT this ALMIGHTY plan to merely save several worthless lives instead...