This is a full functioning rat heart that was grown in a labratory! The best part though was that this was just the tip of the iceburgh. Sience has braught us to a time where they can successfully grow almost any organ in a lab using your own cells and transplant them to your body. There was a surgery they talked about where a young woman had cancer in her bladder, so they made her a new bladder using her own cells and transplanted the new organ into her. It eliminates many of the drugs you have to take after a transplant, because it was made using your own cells!
They showed a full functioning artery, heart valve, liver ... they can do it on anything! As if that wasn't enough??? It only takes weeks to grow a new organ!!!
They even had a guy who cut off the top of his finger and with a special powder ... grew a new one! NO JOKE (I totally thought of you Walmir).
This stuff is insane, but I LIKE IT!!!!
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Amazing! It just gives me thrills to think what my kids will be doing and how life will be for them.
I read about this in the paper and found it quite interesting.
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