Faster, please, though I don’t think I have an immediate need, fortunately.
5 thoughts on “A Beating Transplantable Heart”
It is “full-sized” and “beating” but not really a working human heart:
“While this isn’t the first time heart tissue has been grown in the lab, it’s the closest researchers have come to their end goal: Growing an entire working human heart. But the researchers admit that they’re not quite ready to do that.”
Sounds like some kind of heart tissue around some kind of artificial scaffold of some sort; “beating” to be sure but not really a functional human heart ready for transplant.
“artificial scaffold of some sort”
The article says they took actual hearts and used a chemical–bleach?–to strip away the cells, leaving a sort of skeletal framework; I can’t remember the term.
Extracellular matrix?
That’s probably it.
The first goal should be artificial bone marrow — whole blood and plasma on demand. This should also allow culturing of vaccines at the same time with….
It is “full-sized” and “beating” but not really a working human heart:
“While this isn’t the first time heart tissue has been grown in the lab, it’s the closest researchers have come to their end goal: Growing an entire working human heart. But the researchers admit that they’re not quite ready to do that.”
Sounds like some kind of heart tissue around some kind of artificial scaffold of some sort; “beating” to be sure but not really a functional human heart ready for transplant.
“artificial scaffold of some sort”
The article says they took actual hearts and used a chemical–bleach?–to strip away the cells, leaving a sort of skeletal framework; I can’t remember the term.
Extracellular matrix?
That’s probably it.
The first goal should be artificial bone marrow — whole blood and plasma on demand. This should also allow culturing of vaccines at the same time with….