Source: BBC NEWS
Posted: 2007/04/02 04:47:28 GMT
Summary:
BBC News reports on a new study using adult stem cells to grow human heart valves:
"British scientists have grown part of a human heart using stem cells extracted from bone marrow and cultivated them into heart valve cells. The lead researcher involved in the study said doctors could be using artificially-grown heart components in transplants within three years. His team at Harefield hospital managed to grow tissue that works in the same way as human heart valves. Researchers will see their achievement as a major step towards growing entire organs for transplant."
