Chocolate Sauce » stem cell research http://www.antioxidantalley.com/blog Healthy chocolate and all things antioxidant Tue, 10 May 2011 04:00:27 +0000 en hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v= Grow Your Own Body Parts! http://www.antioxidantalley.com/blog/2009/03/15/grow-your-own-body-parts/ http://www.antioxidantalley.com/blog/2009/03/15/grow-your-own-body-parts/#comments Sun, 15 Mar 2009 07:00:10 +0000 admin http://www.antioxidantalley.com/blog/?p=194 Photo by dee_gee

A while back I made a post about trying to grow new fingers. The article below talks about a woman that needed a trachea transplant. Doctors harvested a trachea from a cadaver and removed all DNA-containing material, just leaving a lattice structure. They then took some of the woman’s own adult [...]]]> petridishes Grow Your Own Body Parts!

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A while back I made a post about trying to grow new fingers. The article below talks about a woman that needed a trachea transplant. Doctors harvested a trachea from a cadaver and removed all DNA-containing material, just leaving a lattice structure. They then took some of the woman’s own adult stem cells and put them on the lattice. After several months the stem cells had produced a complete trachea and it was successfully transplanted into the recipient.

Tissue-Engineered Trachea Transplant Is Adult Stem Cell Breakthrough

A similar technique was used to grow heart cells in rat to replace tissue damaged as a result of a heart attack. Here’s the article: http://cmbi.bjmu.edu.cn/news/0309/135.htm Grow Your Own Body Parts!

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