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Scientists use cells to grow beating heart

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CureOrBust	Post subject: Scientists use cells to grow beating heart Posted: Tue Jan 15, 2008 4:30 am
Family Elder Joined: Wed Jul 27, 2005 3:00 pm Posts: 2701 Location: Sydney, Australia	Quote: The researchers took dead animal hearts and stripped them of everything except the blood vessels, valves and connective tissue. These scaffolds were then seeded with cells from newborn and foetal rat hearts and, after four days of growth, the organs started to contract. Within eight days, the hearts were beating. Not nerve cells in particular, but another step forward http://www.guardian.co.uk/science/2008/jan/14/medicalresearch.sciencenews
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